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Article #3086formatting in vi
From: The Silent Killer
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1988 18:27
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1988 18:27
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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?
You can put the following line in your .exrc.
map /^\.
Then you can just type to format the paragraph. This macro
will search for a dot at the beginning of a line, mark it as 'a,
go back to the original position and format till the marked line.
>Robert J. Drabek
Anant patkar
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