[Info-vax] Writer advice requested

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Wed Nov 10 10:45:13 EST 2010


In article <1685016f-bf3b-408c-9742-e2506be18115 at k3g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>, MetaEd <metaed at gmail.com> writes:
>On Nov 10, 2:42 am, DTL <didier.mora... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Should I limit the width of my comments to 80 c. then <CR><LF> ?
>> To 132c. ? Should I not limit their length?  (I'm talking about
>> full lines comments, not end of line comments).
>
>My solution is to avoid a particular line length. Instead, I use a
>language sensitive editor (Vim) which can indent and wrap lines,
>including comment lines, as I see fit. The same code can have
>different line lengths for different purposes.
>
>For example, for the purpose of composing this reply, I set no limit
>on line width. But for the purpose of sending it, I set tw=68 and
>wrapped the entire document at that margin with the command gggqG.
>This correctly wrapped both the quoted text and my reply.

Can you make vim wrap at the indented column?  I hate trying to follow code 
that is indented but then the long lines wrap at the left margin.
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