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Set formatprg in an autocmd so it passes textwidth to par -w

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
vim
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Search the dotfiles for the existing Vim autocmd or formatprg setting and inspect how textwidth is currently handled. Confirm the configuration passes textwidth to par via -w and verify the resulting paragraph formatting in Vim.

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Dominant language
Perl
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54
Forks
5
Avg merge
6d 14h
Merged PRs (30d)
3

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