Thus spake Gary Johnson on Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 11:18:00PM -0700 or thereabouts: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-01 02:38]: > On 2006-05-01, cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > Now, after doing the above a number of times I began to think there must > > be a better way to handle this type of situation: > > > > 1. When I end up with (4) above, is there a better strategy than using > > 'J' to join line #2 and line #3 .. something that would take me > > directly from (4) to (9) .. hit 'A' and since the cursor would now > > be to the left of col. 72, continue entering my text and benefit > > from the wrap feature automatically? > > Yep. See > > :help gq > :help 25.1 > > You can easily reformat the paragraph the cursor is currently in by > typing this in normal mode: > > gqip
bingo..!! tried this very rapidly and works great - c. 2:45 AM, so I'll have to dig into this - and read the doc - tomorrow.. later today, I mean.. > > > 2. More generally, is there a command - or sequence of commands - that > > would let me reformat a paragraph to take care of any line that goes > > beyond the limit set via the textwidth option? > > There are two approaches to this: manual and automatic. I > mentioned the manual technique above. You can also add the 'a' and > 'w' flags to 'formatoptions' and have vim automatically reflow your > text as you type. > > set fo+=aw > > As nice as this sounds, it has its limitations and can sometimes be > really infuriating. It works well enough that I have my mail.vim > plugin enable it, but I also have a command to disable it when it > gets in the way. > > HTH, You bet..! Thank you very much, cga
