vim-longlines

A Vim plugin to help navigate through long soft-wrapped lines.

Installation

Use your favorite plugin manager or install as a Vim package (see :help packages).

Usage

After installing the plugin, use :LongLines to toggle the longline mode and :LongLines! to turn it off. It's also possible to automatically enable the longline mode for certain filetypes by using an autocommand:

" Enable the longlines plugin for TeX and MediaWiki files.
autocmd FileType mediawiki,tex LongLines

When the longline mode is on, motion commands such as j, k, gg, G, etc., work on display lines rather than actual lines. Although the longline mode replicates most commands reasonably well, some mappings (e.g., dd, V, etc.) don't work very well, and scrolling moves the cursor.

Options

When the longline mode is on, text is not hardwrapped by default and options that enable automatic hardwrapping of text (e.g., Vim's default fo=tcq) are altered to prevent this. If you wish to keep these options unaltered, set the global variable g:longlines_keep_opts or the buffer variable b:longlines_keep_opts to a nonzero value:

let g:longlines_keep_opts = 1

Similarly, when the longline mode is on, all motions commands are remapped to work on display lines, even when user-defined maps exist. If you wish to preserve already existing mappings, set the global variable g:longlines_keep_maps or the buffer variable b:longlines_keep_maps to a nonzero value:

let g:longlines_keep_maps = 1

To always enable the longline mode, set the global variable g:longlines_always_enable to a nonzero value:

let g:longlines_always_enable = 1

License

Public domain. See the file UNLICENSE for more details.