Thanks for the suggestion. > !Gsed '/^ /d' | fmt -w 130<ENTER>
This doesn't do what I need, however. The newly formatted document will only contain lines which didn't begin with a blank. Lines beginning with a blank are deleted. I did try a sed solution with fmt, though. Please see my post: "Bug in fmt?" elsewhere on this list. Joel > 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://mail.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
