[PLUG] some awk-fu or perl to word wrap a text file?
Dan Young
danielmyoung at gmail.com
Wed Oct 17 15:04:22 UTC 2007
On 10/17/07, Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote:
> The added bonus is that fmt works great within vi(m). For instance, to
> wrap a really long line of text, get the cursor to the beginning of
> the line and (in command mode) type
>
> :.!fmt
>
> Or if you've got a paragraph with a really ragged right side, position
> the cursor at the beginning of the paragraph and (in command mode)
> type
>
> !}fmt
Or use Vim's text formatting command:
"To tell Vim to format the current paragraph:
gqap
This starts with the "gq" command, which is an operator. Following is
"ap", the text object that stands for "a paragraph". A paragraph is
separated from the next paragraph by an empty line."
--
Dan
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