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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 with
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the `textwidth` setting. For example, you can set the maximum text width to
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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. However, there are two places where this doesn't quite pan
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out. You will see this as soon as you open a file with lines of text that
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exceed 80 characters and when you paste long lines of text into your buffer.
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You can 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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See `:h gw` and `:h gq` for more details.
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