When wrapping text in GVim, the wrap occurs at the right side of the GVim window. I would prefer to have it wrap at column 80 however. A solution I have found is to :set columns=80, but this shrinks the window and gives me a kind of claustrophobic feeling. Therefore I was wondering whether anyone knows a way to wrap the text at a fixed column, without modifying the file on disk and without modifying the GVim window size. A fixed size blank space on the right of the screen would also work, but would not have my preference.If it makes a difference: I'm mainly using GVim 7.4 on a Windows machine.
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One non-Ideal solution is open another window and then set the vertical res to 80. The command would be::vnew | wincmd p | vertical res 80I know this isn't quite what you had in mind, but it's better than nothing.