Re: fmt: How to skip some text?

2003-09-28 Thread Alan Jackson
It's a bit more work, but you might be able to do that with the perl module Text::Balanced or Text::Autoformat On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 07:42:48 -0400 Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion. > > > !Gsed '/^ /d' | fmt -w 130 > > This doesn't do what I need, however. > >

Re: fmt: How to skip some text?

2003-09-28 Thread Joel Hammer
Thanks for the suggestion. > !Gsed '/^ /d' | fmt -w 130 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 f

Re: fmt: How to skip some text?

2003-09-27 Thread Bill Campbell
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 y

fmt: How to skip some text?

2003-09-27 Thread Joel Hammer
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: 1. My list First Second Third Is there