Soft wrap at 80 characters in Vim in window of arbitrary width

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You could

  • set a large minimum width for the line numbers column via :set numberwidth=6 and
  • then you could resize your window with :set columns=86 (or with the mouse) to the proper size.

If you edit a file with a million lines in it, you may have trouble, but that’s unlikely. You’re wasting 6 columns of screen real estate this way too. So there are still all kinds of problems.

You can highlight past the 80th column using :match like it says here and here.

Beyond that I can’t see any way to do this. Seems like it’d be a nice feature though.

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