How do you get vim to display wrapped lines without inserting newlines?

Question

I\'m getting back in touch with my inner (g)vim due to an unscheduled MacBook mother(board) of a meltdown (my emergency backup Linux box won\'t run TextMate). All told I\'m

Answer 1

I found this very helpful - works like a charm.

Basically I just added these lines in my vimrc

" not to break on words
set formatoptions=1
set linebreak

" fixing up moving line by line in the paragraph
nnoremap j gj
nnoremap k gk
vnoremap j gj
vnoremap k gk

Answer 2

If vim is adding in newline characters (not just wrapping the text) then you probably have textwidth turned on ...

:set textwidth=0

Answer 3

To turn on word wrapping:

:set wrap
:set linebreak

To copy & paste the original text and not any padding works for gvim. For vim in an xterm though, it copies the space padding at EOL (though not the newline). I thought this should work but it doesn't:

:set mouse=a