In VIM, how do I break one really long line into multiple lines?

Question

Say I have a super long line in the VIM editor (say around 300+ characters). How would I break that up into multiple lines so that the word boundaries roughly break at 80 chara

Answer 1

As a quick and nasty, maybe try the following map:

map q 080lwbels

which says:

• start a 0th position of line,
• move to 80th char to the right,
• go to beginning of next word,
• go back to previous word,
• go to end of current word,
• go one char right, and
• substitute a CR for that char.

Then hitting q and CR will break the line up into chunks on the word boundary.