Answer by Rich for Why Vim sets max text width to 79 instead of 80?
I don't have any evidence that this is why 79 was originally chosen, but one good reason to leave it at that value is because if you use 'list' with a value included for eol in 'listchars' then the...
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It is important to realize that this "default" only applies to the gq and gw commands and auto-format as described in that section. The default textwidth is 0. Furthermore, :right and :center default...
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I'm a little puzzled about some default values in Vim.In particular, for gq{motion}, is said that[...]If the 'textwidth' option is 0, the formatted linelength is the screen width (with a maximum width...
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