Re: Word-wrap when printing and quoting

[rex]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:49:03AM -0600, David Champion wrote:
> On 2001.02.28, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>       "Dirk Laurie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 
> > The problem is this: by the time vim gets control, the quote sign ">"
> > has already been prepended to the line.  
> 
> Try using "par q" to reformat your lines.  You can set up a macro for
> this.  
> 
>       http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/
> 
> if you don't already have it.  It's like "fmt", but holy cow.

Par is indeed a powerful formatting tool. 

Jed is a very good editor that has a mail_mode that does smart
formatting of quoted paragraphs. No more ">" characters in the
middle of lines.

http://space.mit.edu/~davis/jed/