[arch-general] Issue with Vim 8.0 and linebreak

[Jeremy Brown]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 09:20:26PM +0200, J. C. wrote:
> Hey hey list,
> when I use the
> set linebreak
> command, Vim actually splits the lines, inserting CRLF or similar. The help
> says that it shouldn't do that, nor has it on Vim 7.x, which I ran on
> another Linux system.
> 
> When just viewing a text, Vim displays it as expected with proper linebreaks
> and there are no inserts of CRLFs.
> 
> Does anyone else have a similar issue or is there something else to take
> into account?

Hmm.  I just tested on my system (with Vim 8), and "set linebreak" works as advertised.  It wraps the lines but doesn't insert a CRLF.  Are you sure you don't have something else set which may be causing this?

Jeremy