Question

I have set linebreak and wrap.
The document looks great on my screen but when I print it the words are broken p.e.

this is the text of my printed docume
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How can I resolve this problem?

ps: I don’t want to reformat the text, I would like to keep the text as it is on the screen.

I would like to have also a bit more right margin space.
Is this possible?

Answer 1

This isn’t directly possible. When you use wrap, Vim breaks lines at word boundaries on the screen, but the actual text file still contains your lines as single unbroken strings. If you want to fix this you have to reformat your file (possibly copying it to a temp file) before you print. See this similar question: How do you enable word wrap in vim when printing