On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 10:27:37AM -0800, Jeff wrote:
> I'm around a lot of users who don't wrap at 72 or 76 columns, and so
> everytime I reply to their message, I get the first line with the
> quote-char in front of it, and the rest "unquoted". I've thought about
> using an external program like fmt to fmt the text before passing it into
> my editor (vim) but I also want to append a ">" before each new line to
> make it nicely quoted. I also tried setting the editor to fmt | vim but
> that doesn't work either :)
vim is able to do this. the 'gq' Command reformats text, and keeps the
quoting. so 'gq ' should reformat your long line.
CU,
Sec
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