This makes Kakoune visually wrap text to fit within the terminal, without actually modifying the content of the buffer (sometimes called "soft wrap").

addhlglobal/ wrap

Seethe highlighter documentation for more details about the wrap highlighter.

Theautowrap script included with Kakoune will automatically insert newline characters as you type. To turn it on, use theautowrap-enable command:

hookglobalWinSetOptionfiletype=mail %{setwindow autowrap_column72    autowrap-enable}

Theautowrap script can be a bit quirky, so maybe you only want to rewrap paragraphs after you're finished with them, rather than while you're editing them, in the manner of Vim's= command. Here's a mapping that will do that:

mapglobal normal ='|fmt -w $kak_opt_autowrap_column<ret>'

This mapping pipes the selected text through thefmt command, but you can easily use a different tool likefold orpar if you prefer.

Note that this wraps to the value of theautowrap_column option, so you can mix fully-automatic and semi-automatic wrapping and have them be consistent with each other.

• Indentation and Tabulation
• rc/format.kak
• fold command
• fmt command
• par command