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:set columns=80 not working

Asked by mohan43u

Currently I installed the following packages,

vim-gnome
vim
vim-full
vim-tiny
vim-doc
vim-gui-common
vim-common
vim-runtime

But still I'm not able to set columns width to 80 using the below command,

:set columns=80
:set columns
     columns=157

Its till going to 157, what happend to vi? Am I installed the full vi? why its not
working properly? what the hell debian.vim doing in /etc/vim/vimrc?

runtime! debian.vim

the actual 'vi' is pointing to 'usr/bin/vim.gnome'. Before installing 'vim-full' it was pointed to '/usr/bin/vim.basic', before installing 'vim', it was pointed to ''usr/bin/vim.tiny', all the 'vim varients' failed to set the columns to my preferred width(80).

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No (11111nonononono-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

Could you try the same command using gvim? This should work.
But I think what you really want is the following: set textwidth=80
This will break the line after 80 characters.

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mohan43u (mohan43u) said : 		#2

:set columns=80 in gvim is working. But :set textwidth=80 in terminal vi still not working.

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mohan43u (mohan43u) said : 		#3

I'm currently using the following workaround (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/235439/vim-80-column-layout-concerns), this will make any characters going beyond 80th column to appear in red.

~/.vimrc:

" Setting color highlighting for column=80
highlight OverLength ctermbg=red ctermfg=white guibg=#592929
match OverLength /\%81v.*/

But its a simple setting in previous 'vi' to achieve what I wanted..

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No (11111nonononono-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#4

As I see from your screenshot, you entered a long line without whitespace. When you set textwidth=80 vim will break after 80 characters on the first white space. So try to enter a white space and vim should break the line.

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mohan43u (mohan43u) said : 		#5

'textwidth' setting is working... Thanks for the kind help...

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No (11111nonononono-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#6

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#7

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