On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 04:40:13PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 09:11:08AM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > The bigger margin allows for more deeply-nested attributions > > > before the lines start wrapping, that's all. > > > > That can be cured, though. > > > > In vi (vim), I use the key-combination 'gqj'. > > I tend to use 'gq}' to wrap entire paragraphs (or 'gqip' if I'm inside > the paragraph in question), but each to their own.
Didn't know about them... > > This wraps lines nicely to the right length (set with ':set > > textwidth=72'). It even re-arranges the quote '>' characters nicely. > > I don't know whether this requires "vim-rt". > > No, it doesn't, it's a vim builtin. > > Something like 'au FileType mail set textwidth=72' in your .vimrc is > nice to have - that does require vim-rt, but you've got that anyway, > right? :) Well, not quite. I use "set editor="vim -c 'set tw=72'"" in my .muttrc. > > I just haven't figured out how to "replace" the powerquote (like > > "sven> ") with plain '>'s if that can easily be done... > > My .vimrc has a macro stolen from /usr/share/doc/vim/examples/mail: > > " ,kpq kill SuperCite (aka PowerQuote) quote (replacing it by `>') > map ,kpq :%s/^> *[a-zA-Z]*>/> >/<C-M> > > Season to taste depending on whether you use '>' or '> ' as your quote > prefix. Cool!! Thanks! I just can't stand that unreadable power-quote stuff. > I found 'set comments' in vim the other day, too. It makes editing > Debian changelogs, and other things formatted as bullet-point lists, > so much more pleasant. vi(m) is just nice, ey? 8-) Cheers, Sven
