Vim: Linebreak at 80 characters

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Vim: Linebreak at 80 characters

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If you want to quickly format a plain text into a certain-character-width, here's how to do it in Vim:

Set the text-width to 80 characters:

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:set tw=80
Then the following options are at your service:

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gq{motion} % format the line that {motion} moves over
{Visual}gq % format the visually selected area
gqq        % format the current line
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Thanks to an answer from "he_the_great" on Stackoverflow.
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