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Asked: 2026-05-27T05:38:11+00:00

Well, I’m a newb at Vim, so I’m guessing there’s a 99% chance it’s

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Well, I’m a newb at Vim, so I’m guessing there’s a 99% chance it’s a user error!

Vim was soft wrapping long lines very nicely thank you, then a couple of days ago it started to insert hard wraps but only when I had saved the file.

I have been through wrap, nolinebreak, textwidth, nolist, and all combinations thereof to try to get softwrap back but to no avail. Heck, I even read the help pages. All of ’em.

Here’s the relevant bits from my .vimrc (as you can tell, I’m getting desperate):

" Editing
set aw ai
set et ts=8 sts=2 sw=2 nu
set fo+=tcrqw fo-=o
set showmatch matchtime=5
set whichwrap=<,>,h,l,[,]
set cursorline
set nofoldenable
set wrap 
set linebreak
let mapleader = ","

I picked up this .vimrc from using Vundle.

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  1. Editorial Team

    but only when I had saved the file.

    This should hint to you that some plugin is touching the buffer Pre-Write.

    Find out which it is by doing 

    :au BufWrite,BufWritePre,BufWriteCmd
:au FileWriteCmd,FileWritePre

    To see where the trigger was installed from:

    :verbose au BufWrite,BufWritePre,BufWriteCmd
:verbose au FileWriteCmd,FileWritePre
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