[Gllug] HTML email formatting

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 08:33:00PM +0000, Kim Hawtin wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 04:48:14PM +0000, Alex Hudson wrote:
> > > Yes, I didn't say it was impossible though: just that it's not as easy
> > > to work with. For example, in pine you can Ctrl-J to re-justify text and
> > > fix broken quoting. However, this breaks with some text (containing >,
> > > for example) requiring manual fixing,
> > 
> > It may break in Pico but Vim handles it with no problem, automatically
> > reformatting paragraphs and re-positioning quoting characters.  For
> > example, I just broke your paragraph in the middle of a line.  3
> > keystrokes will reformat the rest of the paragraph as new:
> ...
> > So there :-P  The smarter text editors have been designed with just
> > these occasions in mind (even emacs;).
> 
> ok then, how do you do that then? (in vim)

Placed a new > at the beginning of the second half and then gq}.  Same
thing comes in useful for comment characters in code.

-- 
Bruce

The ice-caps are melting, tra-la-la-la.  All the world is drowning,
tra-la-la-la-la.  -- Tiny Tim.
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