On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 01:10:12PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> playing with formatoptions+=a I stumbled on the 'paragraphs' option
> and I must confess I feel it's quite dumb (probably due to compatibility
> issue with old vi? don't know ...)
Yes, I think that is the problem. Note that ":help 'paragraphs'"
is *not* marked with "{not in Vi}".
I think this is already mentioned in todo.txt:
- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the
'{' is not in column 1.
> My main problem is that I want a way to define where paragraphs start,
> ... even if I'm not writing nroff! Two use cases that may clarify my
> needs:
>
> 1) TeX
[snip]
> 2) Mail
>
> Similarly, I usually write mails in mutt editing headers. I want to
> tell vim that a line starting with ^\u\U+: (an header name at the
> beginning of a line) marks a new paragraphs. Such that the following:
I have been meaning to do that, with some folding and so forth. Do
you have anything worth sharing in ftplugin/mail.vim , or do you use
anything that is already posted on vim.org ?
HTH --Benji Fisher
