Re: Reformatting in vi

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From: Robert J. Drabek
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1988 14:10

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There has been a problem I have had with formatting paragraphs in
vi: the definition using "}" seems to be "up to the next empty line",
but when editing *roff files I only want to format up to the next
line containing a dot command.

So, how do I easily tell vi to stop where desired?
-- 
Robert J. Drabek
Department of Computer Science
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ  85721

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From: robert@arizona.edu (Robert J. Drabek)
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Subject: Re: Reformatting in vi
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Date: 5 Feb 88 14:10:04 GMT
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Summary: question about "what is a paragraph in vi?"

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