CODEWITHSUNDEEP
vimmarkdown
user347284
user347284

Reputation:

Vim line breaks & Markdown conflict

I'm writing Markdown with Vim. Let's say my file contains this:

La Cigale, ayant chanté tout l'été,  
Se trouva fort dépourvue  
Quand la bise fut venue.

_Jean de la Fontaine_

I know that if I want to add line breaks I have to add two spaces at the end of said line (this is what I did here). But when reformatted by Vim this is transformed as:

La Cigale, ayant chanté tout l'été,  Se trouva fort dépourvue  Quand la bise
fut venue.  

_Jean de la Fontaine_

My problem is that when working with text I include a in my formatoptions and I'm accidentally reformatting paragraphs and losing all my lines breaks a lot of time. I know that when "compiled" this will still produce the output that I want. But I'd like my file to look as readable as possible. Is there a way to do so? Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1447

Answers (2)

user347284
user347284

Reputation:

I found it! Adding w to my formatoptions fixed it.

w   Trailing white space indicates a paragraph continues in the next line.
    A line that ends in a non-white character ends a paragraph.

Upvotes: 0

Jim Stewart
Jim Stewart

Reputation: 17353

You can override formatoptions for Markdown files. Create a ~/.vim/ftplugin/mkd.vim and put this in it:

setlocal formatoptions-=a

You can put whatever commands you want in this file, and they'll get executed when you edit a Markdown file. Using setlocal makes the option affect only the current buffer, and putting it in a ftplugin file makes it apply whenever the matching filetype is encountered.

Upvotes: 3

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