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# Format Long Lines To Text Width
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Vim allows you to set the maximum width for text per line in a buffer. For
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example, you can set the maximum text width to 80 characters like so:
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```
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:set textwidth=80
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```
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With this set, vim will automatically break on whitespace whenever you hit
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80 characters. There are two places where this doesn't quite pan out. You
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will see this as soon as you open a file with lines of text that exceed 80
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characters and when you paste long lines of text into your buffer. You can
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quickly remedy this with `gw`.
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Make a visual selection of the lines that need formatting and then hit `gw`.
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All the lines should then we truncated to 80 or less characters.
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