On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, kevin lyda wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 06:09:47AM -0400, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Ken Weingold wrote:
> > > Not sure about vi, but vim has a wonderful method of wrapping text.  A
> > > simple Q} will wrap the whole paragraph.  Or Q<down arrow> will do for
> > > Outhouse since it seems to make each paragraph all one long line.
>
> huh.  neat.  i started on vi so i always have had vf and vq for formatting
> plain and quoted paragraphs:
>
>     map vf !}fmt
>     map vq !}fmt -p '>'
>
> > for vi, look at 'par'
>
> i find fmt to be more standard across unicies.

that's arguable (fmt is likely to be installed, but like most Unix
utilities would have version dependencies - par is a relative latecomer
and is not installed).

There's a difference between installed and standard of course - X/Open
documents the latter.

-- 
T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

Reply via email to