* Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990303 18:49]:
> 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 :)
> Do I need to filter somehow? 

Nope.

        :se com=n:>     set comment characters
        :se tw=72       set the textwidth
        {visual}        select text
        gq              reformat

Done.

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Sven

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