Re: Formatting text in reply e-mails
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vim may very well be able to do that with built-in commands. I use the external paragraph reformatter 'par-1.52' for this: For example, to format and justify this reply in vim, I used: :'<,'>!par 66j No, this doesn't answer my question. My question is not about the formatting ability of vim. Rather, it is about precisely stating the end of a paragraph in a quoted message that has leading ">"s. In the example below, the first paragraph ends with the word "appropriately." If I type gqap, vim will format the line beginning with the word "However" too. I don't want that to happen. I know vim understands character sequences that delimit comments in various programming languages and gqap formats them appropriately. However, while typing a reply to an e-mail, the gqap command Thanks, Senthil.
Re: Formatting text in reply e-mails
Vim may very well be able to do that with built-in commands. I use the external paragraph reformatter 'par-1.52' for this: http://www.nicemice.net/par/ For example, to format and justify this reply in vim, I used: :'<,'>!par 66j A patch for 'par' also exists to make it work with Unicode UTF-8. Cheers /Dominique > Hi > > I know vim understands character sequences that delimit > comments in various programming languages and gqap formats them > appropriately. > > However, while typing a reply to an e-mail, the gqap command > doesn't seem to identify the end of a paragraph in the original > message because empty lines are also preceded by a ">" or some > such string. As a result, gqap formats the rest of the original > message and kicks me all the way to the end of the file. > > Whereas I'd like to just format the current paragraph, a > paragraph in its normal sense, and be placed at the end of it. > > In essence, I want to tell vim that ">" sequences at the > beginning of a line is just a leader not a part of the line. > > How do I do this? > > Thanks in advance. > Senthil.
Formatting text in reply e-mails
Hi I know vim understands character sequences that delimit comments in various programming languages and gqap formats them appropriately. However, while typing a reply to an e-mail, the gqap command doesn't seem to identify the end of a paragraph in the original message because empty lines are also preceded by a ">" or some such string. As a result, gqap formats the rest of the original message and kicks me all the way to the end of the file. Whereas I'd like to just format the current paragraph, a paragraph in its normal sense, and be placed at the end of it. In essence, I want to tell vim that ">" sequences at the beginning of a line is just a leader not a part of the line. How do I do this? Thanks in advance. Senthil. -- Today's fortune: From 0 to "what seems to be the problem officer" in 8.3 seconds. -- Ad for the new VW Corrado
