[Gllug] VIM comment stripping

[Wulf Forrester-Barker]

JD <jonathan.dye at automationpartnership.com> asked:

> How can I convert:
>
> >> >Some forwarded
> >> >message
>
> into:
>
> >Some forwarded message
>
> in VIM?

:% s/>> >/>/

will turn the mess of quote markers to something neater (% specifies
the whole document, and the s/>> >/>/ will replace the first instance of
input string on each line with the output string (adding g to the end
would replace every instance of >> > with >)

Then, with the cursor in the paragraph, type gqap, and the whole
paragraph will be formatted to vims current width (although I assume you
could specify the text width... set textwidth=70?).

Wulf



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