Scrolling screen lines, I knew, it's impossible

Question

I'm using vim on a very small screen device (7 inch); I use wrap and linebreak, and you can imagine that scrolling (by keyboard and mouse) is a nightmare since if you have a very long line, it can wrap below the visible screen.

I've looked through many posts and none offers a definitive solution other than gj and gk.

To clarify: just try to write a long line that goes below the visible window: ctrl-e or j k will go to the beginning of the next line and you will not see the last characters of the first line.

Is there something that I didn't find? It seems that there are really many persons interested in this, but not a single developer that wants to handle this :-(

thanks

http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/Scrolling-screen-lines-I-knew-it-s-impossible-td3358342.html

Can you give a clearer definition of the problem you are having? I scroll with `Ctrl+e` or with `j` or `k`. I can tell that you're asking a deeper question I just can't tell what that is. — Ben Mordecai, Feb 09 '13 at 23:37

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 10 '13 at 00:30

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gj and gk will scroll within a line, rather than moving to the next line. This might help you out. If it does, you might want to temporarily do:

:nmap j gj
:nmap k gk

answered Feb 10 '13 at 00:30

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thanks, but that's the first thing that I find out, and the only thing that works :-| – gianni Feb 11 '13 at 09:54

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

the closest I could get is this, no mouse support anyway:

Traversing text in Insert mode

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Move_cursor_by_display_lines_when_wrapping

"use up and down to move by screen line
map <Up> gk
map <Down> gj
vmap <Up> gk
vmap <Down> gj
inoremap <Up> <C-o>gk
inoremap <Down> <C-o>gj

" make hjkl movements accessible from insert mode via the <Alt> modifier key
inoremap <A-h> <C-o>h
inoremap <A-j> <C-o>gj
inoremap <A-k> <C-o>gk
inoremap <A-l> <C-o>l

Scrolling screen lines, I knew, it's impossible

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