Question

Im facing some problems, I looked around in the forum and didnt find
any solutions discussed. Im sorry if these have been resolved earlier.

• Is there someway I can make the VIM line break after 80 characters. I
  dont want the text to wrap around but create a new line. And I wish it would
  break off the complete last word. So instead of fo in the previous and o
  in the next line, can it break with foo in the next line?

• When I end my comment and press enter, I get a # in the new line. This is
  cool but when I delete # and want to start a line of code, I dont get syntax
  highlighting there. It still thinks what Im typing is a comment. Is this a
  bug or am I doing it wrong?

• One more thing is that I have set the shiftwidth to 4. But when I press
  Ctrl+S to save the document, the cursor jumps to the beginning of the
  sentence. I then need to manually go back to my original position to begin
  the code. Is there a way I can resolve this?

Thank you for reading this. I am new to Ruby and Vim. I hope you guys help
me out.

Answer 1

Ctrl-S ? This is not known to me. In Vim/Gvim, a file is usually saved by

:w filename.ext (if none's been given yet)

or

:saveas filename.ext

(for all of these commands try “:help :w” or … the same principle).

I don’t know about the comment part, since I don’t do Ruby, but it would be pretty wise for you to get yourself a nice commenter plugin (I think I use LineCommenter) – eases up on the commenting. Just write the comment, and add the #’s later (set it to work in normal and in visual mode; it works beautifully).

As for the breaking the text part, that could be solved by adding

:set tw=80