What exactly is 'soft' line wrapping? about vim-pencil HOT 4 CLOSED

So how does it make sense for hard wrap to use text width but soft warp to use the full buffer width? What's the reasoning?

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The SoftPencil mode uses vim's 'set wrap' command along with some related configuration. So as you type a long line, it should be automatically wrapping at the right edge of the buffer's window, preserving word breaks. No hard line breaks should be inserted, except those that you supply. If that's not what you're seeing, then something odd is going on!

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Thanks. That's what I'm seeing and figured out it was normal/intended which is why I closed the issue. Thanks for responding.

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So how does it make sense for hard wrap to use text width but soft warp to use the full buffer width? What's the reasoning?

basically there is no way in the underlying Vim functionality to soft wrap at an arbitrary width, without adjusting the window/screen dimensions. See, for example: https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/8961/soft-linewrap-width and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/989093/soft-wrap-at-80-characters-in-vim-in-window-of-arbitrary-width

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