Posts for the month of July 2014

Better line wrapping in Vim, FINAL iteration

Back in 2009, I ​went looking for a way to make Vim's line wrapping be indentation aware. Stock Vim did not support such an option, but I found ​a patch by Vaclav Smilauer from 2007 which I was able to update and over the years, keep it updated.

Then on June 25, 2014, ​Bram accepted the breakindent work into Vim as patch 7.4.338. Many thanks to ​Christian Brabandt for getting the breakindent patch over the finish line. There were a number of followup patches for breakindent, including ​7.4.345, ​7.4.346, maybe ​7.4.352, maybe ​7.4.353 and ​7.4.354.

Fedora has not yet pulled those changes into Fedora 20 or Fedora 21, but they'll come in time. update: Fedora 20 updated to 7.4.417 near the end of August.