display_filter and ex

2017-01-31 Thread Andreas Doll
Hello TL;DR Has anyone managed to use ex in conjunction with display_filter? I write emails using vim, which provides the handy function gggqG. This function reformats text such that it doesn't exceed (say) 72 characters. The function is superior to e.g. $ fold -s -w 72 inputFile because i

Re: display_filter and ex

2017-01-31 Thread David Champion
* On 31 Jan 2017, Andreas Doll wrote: > > I write emails using vim, which provides the handy function gggqG. This > function reformats text such that it doesn't exceed (say) 72 characters. The > function is superior to e.g. > > $ fold -s -w 72 inputFile par is superior to all other text ref

Re: display_filter and ex

2017-01-31 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* David Champion [01-31-17 19:31]: > * On 31 Jan 2017, Andreas Doll wrote: > > > > I write emails using vim, which provides the handy function gggqG. This > > function reformats text such that it doesn't exceed (say) 72 characters. The > > function is superior to e.g. > > > > $ fold -s -w 7

Re: display_filter and ex

2017-01-31 Thread David Champion
* On 31 Jan 2017, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * David Champion [01-31-17 19:31]: > > * On 31 Jan 2017, Andreas Doll wrote: > > > > > > I write emails using vim, which provides the handy function gggqG. This > > > function reformats text such that it doesn't exceed (say) 72 characters. > > > The

Re: display_filter and ex

2017-02-01 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 01.02.17 00:56, Andreas Doll wrote: > TL;DR > Has anyone managed to use ex in conjunction with display_filter? > > > I write emails using vim, which provides the handy function gggqG. This > function reformats text such that it doesn't exceed (say) 72 characters. The ex exercise is intriguing

Re: display_filter and ex

2017-02-08 Thread Andreas Doll
On 2017-01-31 at 16:26, David Champion wrote: > par is superior to all other text reformatters. Cool, I didn't knew about par. Indeed more powerful than vims reformatting. > But to your question: > The display filter is a filter in a strict sense: the message is send on > its stdin, and its stdo