Often in programming, you set out to write some code and you end up on a wild tangent instead. Seeing how someone else walks through one of their wild tangents can be very helpful, so here’s a walk through of the wild tangent I went on today.
What was I trying to do?
I’m working on scanning a bunch of old family photos and I eventually plan to put them online. Before I do so, I want to make sure the EXIF metadata is useful and well formatted, so I created myself a new github repo to store some scripts I’m planning to write. As I was writing a commit message while adding my initial .gitignore, I noticed that vim was inserting newlines and wrapping my commit message without me hitting Enter to move to a new line. While I certainly love a well formatted commit message, it really pulls me out of any kind of flow to have my text editor moving me to a new line without my asking. This annoys me enough, that I decided to dig into vim and figure out why my text was auto wrapping.
Why is vim automatically wrapping text?
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