Word Wrap in Vim (preserving indentation)

Question

I was just looking at this post which describes how to wrap entire words in vim. The accepted solution was this:

:set formatoptions=l
:set lbr

Answer 1

This did not work when the question was originally asked, but as of June 25, 2014, this will work. (Assuming you update your vim to a version newer than that date)

Add to your .vimrc:

" Indents word-wrapped lines as much as the 'parent' line
set breakindent
" Ensures word-wrap does not split words
set formatoptions=l
set lbr

And that's it!

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Some people (myself included) share a single .vimrc across multiple computers. In that case, it's important to have this line be robust (to avoid annoying error messages). This is a little better:

if has("patch-7.4.354")
    " Indents word-wrapped lines as much as the 'parent' line
    set breakindent
    " Ensures word-wrap does not split words
    set formatoptions=l
    set lbr
endif

This way, if you're on an earlier version of vim, you don't get an error message.