How to wrap long lines in .vimrc?

Question

I've setup a colorcolumn=80, but I found I can not wrap long lines in ~/.vimrc.

Is there any method like C's \ to concatenate?

For example I tried this, but it does not work.

autocmd FileType python setlocal ai si et sta sw=4 \
textwidth=80 backspace=indent,eol,start fo=croql

score 47 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 09 '20 at 00:45

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Lines in the .vimrc file can be wrapped by putting the escaping \ at the beginning of the continuation line:

autocmd FileType python
    \ setlocal ai si et sta sw=4
    \ textwidth=80 backspace=indent,eol,start fo=croql

See :h line-continuation

edited Oct 09 '20 at 00:45

Rob Bednark

answered Nov 04 '11 at 07:43

John Weldon

tks, where to find the document, I can not find it. I've tried `:help vimrc` – Daniel YC Lin Nov 04 '11 at 08:01
Agreed, I couldn't find this in the documentation, although I'm sure it's there somewhere. I found it by examining .vimrc files until I found it. – John Weldon Nov 04 '11 at 08:02
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See `:help line-continuation` for description of the line continuation syntax in Vim scripts. – ib. Nov 04 '11 at 08:31
I haven't managed to comment continued line - seems all the following line continuations are considered as comment. Is there any solution? – bam Feb 28 '19 at 20:12

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