Re: GSHK 1.1 Problems

[nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

In article <nugundamDs7K48.HKt@netcom.com> nugundam@netcom.com (Joseph Lee)
writes:
>Nathan Mates (nathan@cco.caltech.edu) wrote:
>:    There's a far simpler method that doesn't require half as much
>: work. M-q is bound to fill-paragraph, thus hitting 'Escape' then 'q'
>: will reformat the current paragraph to the default of 70 columns.
>: Very simple, very fast.
>
>Okay, that's the emacs way.  What's the VI way to limit line length?

I usually type ":set wm=5" at the beginning of the editing session, or put
it in my .exrc file.  This makes vi automatically wrap my text when I get
within 5 characters of the right-hand margin.

For dealing with text that's already too wide, you can reformat a paragraph
by moving the cursor to the beginning of the paragraph and typing "!}fmt"
(assuming that you're on UNIX, and you have the "fmt" utility).  There are,
of course, other permutations on this if you want to reformat something other
than a single paragraph.

              - Neil Parker
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