Eric Weir schrieb am 16.01.2012 um 18:36 (-0500): > On Jan 16, 2012, at 4:39 PM, Chris Lott wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Eric Weir wrote: > >>> As discussed recently in a parallel thread, if you have flowing > >>> text where paragraphs are reflowed inserting linebreaks (rather > >>> than your paragraphs being all on one line), it's not quite as > >>> useful. For that, you might investigate "wdiff" to compare the > >>> files. > >> > >> Hmm. Haven't encountered the concept of "flowing" text previously. > >> I believe my paragraphs have two linebreaks between them. > > > > I believe "flowing text" is referring not to the line breaks between > > paragraphs, but having paragraphs each be one long line of text > > (rather than breaking each line with a line break as the quoted text > > above does), which is sometimes (often?) the preferred mode when > > working with prose. > > Still not quite clear about the concept of "flowing" and "reflowed" > text. The way Tim put it makes it sound like all paragraphs, not just > each paragraph, on one line.
Don't get hung up on the words, particularly not on flowing words. You know what a paragraph is. So you can write a paragraph on one line, as you did in your mail. But see how I reformatted (reflowed) the paragraph you wrote above (using the gqq command - see :h gqq)? (Using vim to compose mail.) And here's another paragraph you wrote; going to leave that one flowing as it is for the sake of the example (although I prefer mail text to be formatted old-fashioned style). > I'm not sure what I have. I have vim set to wrap lines at the screen, but I > don't think there's any wrapping in the file. So does my text "flow" or not? And I think that's all there is to it. -- Michael Ludwig -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
