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I've been using Notepad++ in windows for a while and it has a cool feature for word wrapping so that the wrapped text is indented. That is the start of the sentence starts at column 1, but wrapped text starts at column 3 (or 4 or whatever). I believe it is called Indent style for word wrapping. Very convenient when you have long lines. I played with vim, but didn't have success getting similar behavior.

Does any text editor in Linux support this type of word wrapping?

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In vim you can do something like:

:set showbreak=..
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  • Wow- excellent. This also works. ":set showbreak=\ \ "
    – che_kid
    Commented May 16, 2013 at 2:37
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    The first has the advantage that vim will display those characters in another color, which helps to distinguish those breaks from real newlines.
    – michas
    Commented May 16, 2013 at 6:59
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There's still a famous and often-requested break indent patch in the queue for Vim; this will improve on the existing 'showbreak' by properly indenting the wrapped line.

Addendum: The patch has been accepted upstream, so since version 7.4.338 all you have to do is :set breakindent and you're good to go.

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Sublime Text 2 also has this feature, and the width and type of indent are configurable.

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