Add a soft wrap width option

[JelteF]

Currently vim soft wraps lines at the width of the screen. I would like to have an option to specify a column width where should be wrapped so my full screen terminal is not filled with text.

[mhinz]

Like :h 'textwidth'? (Also have a look at :h 'linebreak'.)

[JelteF]

No, that way it will hard wrap, adding a new line charactar, at that point. I want a width at which a long line will continue on the following line in vim, but without adding a new line.

The only thing I can find that is related is this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/989093/soft-wrap-at-80-characters-in-vim-in-window-of-arbitrary-width However, this resizes the terminal, which is not what I want. I want it to display an empty terminal on the rest of the screen.

[justinmk]

Just create a new vertical window, or use something like goyo.vim.

https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim

[glow12121]

As someone who edits long markdown texts in Neovim, I agree that soft-wrapping texts at a given line length is very useful functionality.

Something like max-width in html or wrap_width in Sublime Text.

Opening split windows is a workaround that isn't convenient.

Hope this functionality is added eventually: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/4386

[codr1]

:lua vim.opt.columns = 120

This will set your columns to 120 for the whole Neovim. So if you have 5 characters for line numbers and 1 for flags, you will effectively have 114 in this case.

You can then set :lua vim.opt_local_colorcolumn='114' for example.

Resizing the window after you do this will blow it up again. I am looking to do some sort of auto command, but this should get you started.