On 2025-08-14, Maxim Kim wrote: > > I presume that the purpose of this is to allow the user to check for > errors in their gawk code, but it seems wrong to me to hijack the > formatting command for that purpose, mainly because doing so > prevents the user from actually reformatting their code. > > The purpose is to format awk code as far as I know. gq was designed to be used > with external formatters, to always (almost) use vim's internal formatter, use > gw > > :help gw > > I have just tried to use formatprg you showed and it works to format awk code > I > grabbed from internet: > > https://asciinema.org/a/QUuoVqgTi25qYIRpUeBucml64 > > On Thursday, August 14, 2025 at 5:37:39 PM UTC+10 Maxim Kim wrote: > > The issue is that gq (with internal formatter) was used to format a > comment, now we have formatprg set which in this case formats the code, > not > comments. > > The usual substitute is gw -- it should still work.
gw does allow text to be reformatted without using 'formatprg'. Thanks for pointing that out. It's not a replacement for gq, though, since it leaves the cursor where it was so you can't repeat commands such as gwj on subsequent lines without also moving the cursor. I could train my fingers to use gw instead of gq, but repeating a gq command by using . is just too convenient to forgo. I can see now why someone might want to set 'formatprg' to use gawk -o, but having tried it, I don't particularly like gawk's idea of "pretty", so I'll keep my workaround. Thanks for the explanations. Regards, Gary -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/20250814081632.GI24703%40phoenix.
