On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 07:12:50PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On 12:06:02 Dec 25, Pieter Verberne wrote: > > I just checked out the 'wl=72' stuff in vi. Works exactly like 'tw' in > vim. I then did an fmt in the end. The result looks much better > of course. But there is a problem. The quoting gets goofed up. One has > to do it with little more care I guess.
Vim's formatting commands (gq{motion}, gw{motion}) are able to handle quoting in mail messages. (I think Marc Espie was referring to these commands in his message.) > > Something like 'd-{'? > > I don't get you. You mean 'd' and '{'? > > Doesn't work for me. > > Perhaps I misunderstood? I want to delete everything from current line > till end of file. In vi, it corresponds to > > :,$d He might have meant a vi command (yours is an ex command) of the form 'd motion'; e.g., dG deletes all lines from the current line through to the last line of the current file.