<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><div>I am using vim-gtk to write this note, and I set the options that you mention,</div><div>James, in your note, namely:</div><div><br></div><div>:set textwidth=80</div><div>:set formatoptions=t</div><div><br></div><div>and it does indeed appear to wrap text, so if you are using Vim primarily to</div><div>compose text, it looks like it does it very well with these two options set.</div><div><br></div><div>There are certainly other text editors to use, and if you truly want a console</div><div>editor, and not a GTK-based graphical user interface, Vim can certainly do the</div><div>job in that way, too.</div><div><br></div><div>There's nothing wrong with choosing gedit or leafpad either. In fact, since I</div><div>don't write code nearly as often as I used to, and I don't have to be constantly</div><div>editing long existing documents, I frequently use leafpad, whereas I used to use</div><div>either Vi (in various forms, including the original vi, elvis, vim, vile, and</div><div>even levee). Vim is a very good choice, but it's not the only choice. What you</div><div>will find, however, is that the vast majority of distributions either include</div><div>Vim, or in the very worst case, it can be loaded from most package managers, or</div><div>even downloaded in an archive format and loaded; it's definitely available in</div><div>Xubuntu.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "> </div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">--<br>Brian Masinick<br>masinick at yahoo dot com<br><br></div> </div></body></html>