On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 04:57:24 +0200, Meino Christian Cramer sent:
>Hi Pete!
>
Hi!


>thank you very much for this "line of code" -- works like a
>charme!
>
Delighted to hear it.


>The only """bad""" thing is: I dont understand completly, how it
>works....
>
He he... I'm glad that someone's taken this apart :-)

>1,$        for the beginning of the text til its end do
>
And there's a 'g'...


>/.\{73,}/  find all lines longer than 72 chars and for each do
>
Yup.


>normal     ??? go into normal mode ???
> v         ????? visual mode (and for what is the " " good for?)
> ????
>
normalv}gq isn't an editor command, so you have to split 'normal'
and 'v'. There may be a better way of doing this.


>}gq        ???????? only white noise for me....a C-programme I
>would say, that there is on "}" too many in the whole expression
>but simultaneously I know, that I am wrong.....???????????
>
} is a motion: it moves one paragraph forward.

See :help }

gq formats the highlighted lines.

See :he gq

There are other ways of solving this problem, I am sure, but I
like the way this works because it leaves paragraphs alone that
are shorter then 73 characters wide, rather than expanding them.

Cheers;



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