Re: Formatting quotes?

1999-08-16 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Thanks for yours and other suggestions. It seems like par is for me, in that it's independent of any editor and thus will let me keep my present one (mcedit - which does have paragraph formatting, but not quite usable for this purpose). Now, I would like to have par executed both upon

Re: Formatting quotes?

1999-08-16 Thread Alex Lane
Recently, Jeremy Blosser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Vim will do this nicely, using the 'gq' command. Its behaviour is very customisable, but I'm mostly using the defaults and it does just what you want. Am I missing something here? I thought 'g' and 'q' both are undefined in vim (in the

Re: Formatting quotes?

1999-08-16 Thread Danny O'Brien
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 01:53:47AM +0200, Morten Bo Johansen wrote: This is really an editor related question but since it's about handling email messages in the editor I hope it's okay to ask it here. Is there any editor (besides emacs, which I don't want to use) that will format

Re: Formatting quotes?

1999-08-16 Thread Jeremy Blosser
Alex Lane [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Recently, Jeremy Blosser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Vim will do this nicely, using the 'gq' command. Its behaviour is very customisable, but I'm mostly using the defaults and it does just what you want. Am I missing something here? I thought 'g'

Re: Formatting quotes?

1999-08-16 Thread Martin Lange
Hi, Alex Lane wrote: Am I missing something here? I thought 'g' and 'q' both are undefined in vim (in the 'out-of-the-box' state). [...] It's actually 'gq{motion}', i.e. gq} re-format the current paragraph, using 'textwidth'. There's a lot more, but I guess, we're drifting off-topic ;-)

Re: Formatting quotes?

1999-08-16 Thread David Thorburn-Gundlach
Morten -- ...and then Morten Bo Johansen said... % % Thanks for yours and other suggestions. It seems like par is for me, in You're welcome :-) % that it's independent of any editor and thus will let me keep my % present one (mcedit - which does have paragraph formatting, but not quite %

Formatting quotes?

1999-08-15 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
This is really an editor related question but since it's about handling email messages in the editor I hope it's okay to ask it here. Is there any editor (besides emacs, which I don't want to use) that will format quotes, containing longer_than_allowed line lengths, neatly - curtailing the

Re: Formatting quotes?

1999-08-15 Thread Jeremy Blosser
Morten Bo Johansen [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Is there any editor (besides emacs, which I don't want to use) that will format quotes, containing longer_than_allowed line lengths, neatly - curtailing the lines to a designated line wrap and inserting missing quote markers. I believe that

Re: Formatting quotes?

1999-08-15 Thread Jon Parise
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 01:53:47AM +0200, Morten Bo Johansen wrote: Is there any editor (besides emacs, which I don't want to use) that will format quotes, containing longer_than_allowed line lengths, neatly - curtailing the lines to a designated line wrap and inserting missing quote

Re: Formatting quotes?

1999-08-15 Thread David Thorburn-Gundlach
Morten -- ...and then Morten Bo Johansen said... % % This is really an editor related question but since it's about handling % email messages in the editor I hope it's okay to ask it here. Sure; we get it all the time :-) % % Is there any editor (besides emacs, which I don't want to use)