Hi, On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 10:28:21AM +0200, Philip Hands wrote: > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> writes: > > > > yes. i am constantly having to hand-edit people's replies to add > > line-breaks. it's been amazingly tedious. > > Does whatever is your favoured editor not have a widget for that sort of > thing?
I usually use 'fmt' to create line-breaks semi-automatically. Many text editors for Unix like systems (e.g. vi) allow to invoke external programs as filters to manipulate (part of) the text. Example for vim to insert line-breaks into the current line: :.,.!fmt Example for vim to re-adjust line-breaks of a paragraph: !}fmt But you all knew this already anyway. ;) It still is more tedious to have to adjust the text for a reply than to just have a nicely formatted plain text mail to start with. Thanks, Erik -- Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius - or at any rate a programmer - to understand and appreciate the simplicity. -- Dennis Ritchie _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk