On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 12:02:21PM -0700, Daniel Chetlin wrote:
[...]
> Item two: I tend to edit my emails once or twice before sending. When I use
> textwidth in vim, it inserts newlines initially, so if I edit the text ends up
> looking very choppy (30 character lines, etc.) and it becomes a pain to
> re-join the broken lines.
[...]
I found reformatting in vi (vim, to be precise) is very easy when you simply
mark all lines to be reformatted (visual mode) and then press 'gq'. Voilą -
nicely formatted paragraph with lines in ideal length.
HTH,
Thomas
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