John Cordes wrote:
I have *very* little experience writing 'map' commands for my
.vimrc (Linux). For some years I've had the following two
commands for reformatting with the par utility.
" reformat paragraph with no arguments:
map ** {!}par^M}
"
" reformat paragraph with arguments:
map *^V {!}par
They both work well, but I frequently would like to run par
on a visual selection. I naively tried
vmap *^V {!}par
but this fails with the message (when I try "* 55" on a
selected area)
:'<,'>!}par 55
shell returned 127
I would appreciate a suggestion here.
Well, I don't appear to have par on my FC5 box; so my suggestion will
have been untested.
However, here it is anyway:
1. Get vis.vim from:
http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#VIS
or a more stable version from:
http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=1195
2. Select your block of text
ctrl-v
move
:B !par
The "vis.vim" plugin provides the :B command, which allows visual
blocks/character/line selected
regions to be handled by ex-mode commands (such as :!par).
Regards,
Chip Campbell
