I am not sure how to do that just with vi but:
Since you can easily pass your document through a unix command filter, you
could just write your own sed command to do that for you and bind it to a
key with map.
eg.
:1,5 !tr a-z A-Z makes line 1 to 5 uppercase.
or
:1,10 !sed s/^[a-z].*/ /
Might
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 11:59:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Philip Mak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mutt Users' List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Writing bullets/lists in vim
Does anyone have a vim configuration to make writing bullets/lists easier?
e.g. when I'm writing something like this:
--- begin
Philip, et al --
...and then Philip Mak said...
%
% Does anyone have a vim configuration to make writing bullets/lists easier?
% e.g. when I'm writing something like this:
...
% it would be nice if when the line wraps while I'm typing point #2, the
% cursor starts on column 3 instead of column