[Gllug] HTML email formatting

Stig Brautaset stigbrau at start.no
Wed Nov 21 23:44:27 UTC 2001


* Kim Hawtin <kim at aldigital.co.uk> spake thus:
> > 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)

:help gq 

e.g. gq} that will format the rest of the paragraph (i.e. up to the line
containg nothing but a newline, or the end of file).

Regards,
Stig

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