Is there any command to toggle enable auto text wrapping?

Question

By default, I think my vimrc setttings enable the auto-wrapping. However, sometimes, I would like to see text lines are not wrapped. Is there any command I toggle the text line wrapping enabled and disabled? This would avoid me to exit and to change settings.

Answer 1

:set nowrap

There is also the linebreak option that controls whether wrapped text is broken at word boundaries or not.

Answer 2

The quickref suggests (no)wrap

Answer 3

In your vimrc, create a function such as this:

:function ToggleWrap()
: if (&wrap == 1)
:   set nowrap
: else
:   set wrap
: endif
:endfunction

Then map a key (such as F9) to call this function, like so:

map <F9> :call ToggleWrap()<CR>
map! <F9> ^[:call ToggleWrap()<CR>

Whenever you press F9, it should toggle your wrapping on and off.

Answer 4

I think what you want is:

:set wrap!

This will toggle line wrapping.

More about using ! (bang) to alter commands can be found at:

:help :_!

Answer 5

That's all great solutions. Thank you very much! One thing I realized that the scroll bar for horizontal scroll does not appear event there are some long lines beyond the screen. Maybe there is a different command to make it visible?