Vim may very well be able to do that with built-in commands. I use the external paragraph reformatter 'par-1.52' for this:
http://www.nicemice.net/par/ For example, to format and justify this reply in vim, I used: :'<,'>!par 66j A patch for 'par' also exists to make it work with Unicode UTF-8. Cheers /Dominique > Hi > > I know vim understands character sequences that delimit > comments in various programming languages and gqap formats them > appropriately. > > However, while typing a reply to an e-mail, the gqap command > doesn't seem to identify the end of a paragraph in the original > message because empty lines are also preceded by a ">" or some > such string. As a result, gqap formats the rest of the original > message and kicks me all the way to the end of the file. > > Whereas I'd like to just format the current paragraph, a > paragraph in its normal sense, and be placed at the end of it. > > In essence, I want to tell vim that ">" sequences at the > beginning of a line is just a leader not a part of the line. > > How do I do this? > > Thanks in advance. > Senthil.
