Hi,

Eugene Lee typed:
> :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.
> Unfortunately, it doesn't handle quoted text at all.  I like the utility
> 'par', because it does so.  So I can transform the above quote to this:

Oh, sure it does! Use the following commands:

set comments=n:>
set formatoptions=tcrq

That should let you format even the quoted text using `gq'.

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