i've found it's nice for fmt to know about leading formatting
such as a "> " for email or a " * " for c comments. this
is especially helpful when dealing with email from folks whose
mailers don't wrap, or badly formatted comments.
for example,
/*
* this is a comment block that is way too long. the new option -q
quotestr gives fmt the ability to reformat lines like this and keep the
beginning-of-line formatting.
*/
|fmt -q ' * '
/*
* this is a comment block that is way too long. the new option -q
* quotestr gives fmt the ability to reformat lines like this and
* keep the beginning-of-line formatting.
*/
now that this comment doesn't need the first sentence, fmt -q will fix it up
again.
http://www.quanstro.net/magic/man2html/1/fmt
also, nedmail now has a "" cmd to reformat quoted text
with fmt.
- erik
