[Gllug] vi indenting ...

[kim at aldigital.co.uk]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 07:44:03PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 05:49:12PM +0000, Richard Cohen wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> > > Can anyone tell me how to indent several lines at once with spaces in vi?

> > Type the number of lines to indent, followed by >> to indent by sw spaces
> > (where sw is a vi variable - do ":set sw" to see the value and e.g. ":set
> > sw=4" to set to 4 spaces).

> And of course you can do > followed by a motion, so >} does to the end
> of the paragraph.

while we are on the topics of paragraphs and formating, how do you
format a paragraph. as in a block of text formated, to say 76
characters wraping words? (in vi)

yours,

kim
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