Thanks Jurgen (hang on let me fire up vim instead of nano) Jürgen Bingo, this did it for me: formatoptions=tcqa
I read somewehre I think in the docs, that vim does not support or did not support this so I gave up. Then I thought, well vim can do anything of this sort that other editors can. Once again this proved to be so. The above autoformats to the end of the paragraph on the fly. I should have asked the question before. -- - Eric Smith Jürgen Krämer said: > > Hi, > > Eric Smith schrieb: > > > > vim of course can wrap lines as you type them > > and 'wrap' is default on.. > > > > However, my question concerns the case of when > > you revisit an already entered line and you *extend* > > this line, then it does not auto reformat. > > > > I was using nono (as I often do for simple emails) and > > experienced a flash of envy. That prompted me to revisit this topic. > > (nano does not reformat when you *shorten* a line). > > do you talk about appending to lines that are already longer than > 'textwidth' characters or that reach into the margin set by > 'wrapmargin'? If yes, you might want to check if > > :set formatoptions-=l > > helps. Additionally there are the 'a' and 'w' flags of 'formatoptions'. > If you add them multiple lines that end in spaces are treated as one > paragraph and this paragraph is reformatted every time you make a change > to its contents. > > Regards, > Jürgen > > -- > Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere > in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. (Calvin) > > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
