Hi, On 8/14/07, Andrew Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Aug 14, 2007, at 4:31 PM, Georg Dahn wrote: > > > > > Andrew Myers wrote: > >> Yes, but it would be nice to have it work cross-platform. As long as > >> there's an internal text formatting feature, why not make it do a > >> good job? > > > > It does already a good job. It depends on what you want it to do: if > > you'd like it to behave like par, then you prefer just a different > > behavior than the current. But don't call it better as long it is > > better > > for your purpose only. The behavior of par makes sense in many > > situations, but the current makes sense, too. I would not like to > > exchange the behavior of gq formatting, for example, but I would > > like to > > have the same behavior of par additionarily to the current. > > > > Best regards, > > Georg Dahn > > Actually, I think I would make the strong claim that what I am > talking about is not just some personal preference, but a fairly > universal one. All serious text formatting systems try to make line > lengths equal (without introducing additional line breaks), because > this is known to aid readability. The TeX formatting algorithm is one > widely used approach. I can't see what generally held notion of > goodness the current formatting optimizes for except algorithmic > simplicity. But perhaps someone can explain why they prefer > linebreaks to be inserted greedily? >
You can set the 'formatexpr' option to a Vim function to customize the formatting done for the 'gq' command. To use an external program like par for formatting, you can set the 'formatprg' option. To customize the Vim internal formatting you can modify the 'formatoptions' option. For more information, read :help 'formatexpr' :help 'formatprg' :help 'formatoptions' To align text you can try using the justify.vim script shipped with Vim. You can find it under $VIMRUNTIME/macros/justify.vim - Yegappan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
