On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 the mental interface of Thomas E. Dickey told: > 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 '>' > >
[...] I use gqap in vim. Thats for leaving the qotes at start of line. "Or you can have vim do this reformatting automatically by applying patches 6.1.142 and 6.1.143 and adding this to your autocmd: set formatoptions+=a" (posted at vim.vim.org!) Ciao Elimar -- Alles was viel bedacht wird ist bedenklich!;-) Friedrich Nietzsche