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Vim adds a new line when I am writing something inside quotes and the line hits the window width of the Vim.

For example:

export_data(...['official stmt url, issue',])

When writing something inside the quotes, this becomes:

export_data(...['official stmt url, issue
                 , new line aligned',])

I want to disable this feature. I guess this is caused by some settings in my vimrc file but I don't know which one.

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The simplest fix to this is to disable textwidth:

:se textwidth=0 wrapmargin=0

to find the cause, do

:verbose set tw wm fo

which will show something like the following:

    Last set from /usr/share/vim/vim73/ftplugin/help.vim
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Sounds like you have a narrow value for textwidth. To disable it, set it to zero

set textwidth=0

See :help textwidth for full details.

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