On Aug 15, 2007, at 3:21 AM, Matthew Winn wrote: > > I get the impression that the OP doesn't want right-aligned text, but > wants a better distribution of ragged-right lines. For example, > consider the first two lines of this paragraph. The naïve breaking > algorithm used by my mail client has left a deep indentation at the > end of the second line. A better algorithm would move the "but" from > the end of the first line to the start of the second, making the ends > of the lines appear more regular.
Exactly. For a small example, suppose that the text width is 10. The current greedy algorithm tries to pack as much onto each line as possible before inserting a line break. Sometimes this means it does a bad job of filling later lines, resulting in text like this: xxx yyy zz aaaa bbbbbbb. when it would be better to break the first line earlier: xxx yyyy aaaa zz bbbbbb. Equalizing line lengths makes a very noticeable difference when applied to large blocks of text. (Note that the last line in a paragraph doesn't count -- you don't try to make that one equal-length.) A couple of people have commented, "I like what gq does now because I use it on code." It seems to me that the proposed change would make it do no worse a job of formatting code, and would improve the formatting of comments within code. Cheers, -- Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
