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- formatoptions+=w: this isn't necessary, but it has an effect on the way the auto-formatting is done.

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- formatoptions+=w: this isn't necessary, but it has an effect on the way the auto-formatting is done.

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- formatoptions+=w: this isn't necessary, but it has an effect on the way the auto-formatting is done.

This will do what par does, and can be adjusted with vim's 'textwidth' and 'formatoptions' settings.

I'd add j to 'formatoptions' for.c and.h files (or even for all types of file).

> annoyance comes from dealing with long lines or automatic line wrapping You have to set 'formatoptions' depending on what you're doing.

Primarily by having these in my.vimrc: autocmd FileType text set textwidth=75 autocmd FileType text set formatoptions+=a autocmd FileType text set formatoptions+=w explanation: - formatoptions+=a: auto-format as you insert text, which means it will (basically) automatically insert a newline once you've typed 'textwidth' number of characters on your line.

:set formatoptions-=ro and:set noautoindent are the first lines in my vimrc.

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Ah you see, you just wrap that lua in a lisp in some terse macros and there you go, instead of writing `:set formatoptions+=j` (yuck, vimscript!) or `vim.opt.formatoptions:append"j"` (vom, lua!) you can write the clearly superior `(opt formatoptions +j)` (heck yes, ivory tower).