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As others, I've grown accustomed to wrapping lines to fit in small terminals, and I started avoiding breaking the line randomly. Instead I try to break after self-sufficient parts of sentences so that lines flow naturally after one another. That usually means after a comma, before a connector word, or after an enumeration. It's not always possible, but I find that when I need to rewrite a sentence to be naturally breakable it usually reads better. Furthermore, each line often ends up expressing a whole idea, which means working on that idea usually translates to simple line operations, which fits nicely in an expressive text editor like Vim.



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