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Article #3247Re: Paragraph Re-Formating in vi
From: Kevin Carothers
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 1988 22:57
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 1988 22:57
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>In article <2226@copper.SDP.TEK.COM> jackd@copper.SDP.TEK.COM (Jack Decker) writ
es:
>>I know you vi can do wrapped margins when you are initially entering
>>text, but is there any way to force it to reformat the paragraph if
>>you add or delete text to a paragraph that already exists?
>Sure, use fmt (if you don't have it on your system, there are PD versions):
>
>:f,l!fmt
>
>where f is line number of first line of paragraph
>and l is line number of last line of paragraph
>
>-dave
> dab@rocky.oswego.edu
Huh?
I thought we had this discussion months ago. Anyway, I don't like
this method because it leaves "ragged" right-hand margins. It
looks a lot better if you put a ".pl 1" command at the top of
your paragraph, position your cursor to the ".", and enter the
command "!}nroff". This gives "justified" right-hand margins,
like in this posting.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!linus!philabs!ttidca!kevin From: kevin@ttidca.TTI.COM (Kevin Carothers) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: Paragraph Re-Formating in vi Keywords: vi, paragraph, reformating Message-ID: <3003@ttidca.TTI.COM> Date: 1 Aug 88 22:57:57 GMT References: <2226@copper.SDP.TEK.COM> <894@oswego.Oswego.EDU> Reply-To: kevin@ttidcb.tti.com (Kevin Carothers) Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica Lines: 41