On Sat, Sep 27, 2003, Joel Hammer wrote: >I want to use fmt in vi to format text, eg: > :1,$ ! fmt -w 130 > >Without vi, this command would look like: > cat file ! fmt -w 130 > >I want it to format everything except lines which begin with at least >two blanks, like this:
Extend your command to pipe it through sed first: This will format the entire document Go to the top of the document (1G); !Gsed '/^ /d' | fmt -w 130<ENTER> Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tulius Ciceroca (42 BD) _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://mail.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
