[PLUG] some awk-fu or perl to word wrap a text file?
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
Wed Oct 17 14:51:26 UTC 2007
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Russell Senior wrote:
>>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> writes:
>
> Paul> The added bonus is that fmt works great within vi(m). For
> Paul> instance, to wrap a really long line of text, [...]
>
> Oh, you just had to go an bring up vi. In emacs, just put your
> cursor in the paragraph and type: M-q
Yeah, yeah. I've always wished for a vi(m) builtin as handy as M-q,
which I use copiously when working in emacs. Additionally, the
fill-paragraph command usually does The Right Thing in regard to
bullet lists, leading whitespace, etc. Getting fmt to understand all
that is an exercise in frustration.
In (al)pine, I use Eduardo Chappa's very cool fillpara patch that's
reasonably good at figuring out line-based text prefixes (such as the
"Paul> " that Gnus used in your reply) and doing paragraph rewrites
accordingly. It's very handy when replying to e-mail messages with
long lines or ragged paragraphs.
> Lots fewer keystrokes! ;-)
Emacs users don't get to say that very often, so enjoy it while you
can! :-)
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