I've looked through the archives and haven't found anything quite like
what I'm looking for, hopefully someone will have some ideas...
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,
I've looked through the archives and haven't found anything quite like
what I'm looking for, hopefully someone will have some ideas...
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,
I'm sure there are other ways to handle this, but I use Par[1], somewhat
integrated with my editor of choice Jove, to deal with it. I've got Par
installed. The Par package provides a utility named "par", which can be run
like "fmt" to filter a chunk of text and re-wrap it. It has a couple of big
a
This is what I do. (almost stock vi)
Go to first line to be "fixed".
ma
Go to last line to be "fixed" - note that there should be no formatted
(indented, etc.) text in between.
mb (not really necessary, but the next step may move the focus line)
:'a,'bs/^> // (gets rid of quoting)
:'a,'b! fmt
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
Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
In vim, you can reformat quoted text with the gq} command. It will reformat
the whole reply and keep the >'s at the beginning of the lines. It'll even
add the >'s when splitting long lines. It works for multiple levels deep and,
if a blank line between paragraphs, keeps paragraphs in order as w
* 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
Or use Jed and get mail_mode.sl. It will reformat to standard line length
using Alt Q and has some handy functions for adding and deleting quotes from
lines and paragraphs, just read the begining of the slang file for
instructions.
Pat
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