Thanks! That is exactly what I needed.
Radim On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 05:54:36PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Radim Gelner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >This is a newbie question to vi: > > > >I want the text at the vi to wrap nicely a the end of the line so > >that I do not have to press Enter after every line. I set up the > >wrapmargin variable in vim. But what do I do, when I rearrange the > >text and want to wrap it again paragraph after paragraph to get > >rid of 'dents'? > > It's a somewhat bizarre set of key sequences, but in command mode (this > is all vim-specific, by the way, and will probably work in other vi > clones): > > gqip - rewraps current paragraph > gq} - rewraps next paragraph > > Since . repeats the last action, you can normally do gq}... etc. until > all your text is wrapped. > > In fact, 'gq' followed by any movement command will rewrap the text from > the current position of the cursor to the line where the cursor ends up > after the movement command, so, for instance, gq2<down-arrow> will > rewrap this and the next two lines. > > If you want more advanced formatting, you could use a shell escape with > /usr/bin/fmt or /usr/bin/par. > > By the way, I normally tend to use textwidth rather than wrapmargin, as > it's usually more important to me to have a maximum number of characters > in a line than for the line to end at least some number of characters > from the right window border (this is important for mail and news, for > example), but your mileage may vary. > > Finally, if you have a reasonably recent version of vim (5.4 or later), > you might want to look into autocommands in conjunction with filetypes. > These can give you the ability to define defaults for various types of > files with a great deal of flexibility. For example, if you put the > following lines in your ~/.vimrc: > > syntax on > au! > au FileType mail set textwidth=72 > > ... you'll find that all files are syntax-highlighted by default where > possible and all mail and news articles you edit will be wrapped to 72 > characters by default. > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
