On Jan 16, 2012, at 7:00 PM, Michael Ludwig wrote: > > Eric Weir schrieb am 16.01.2012 um 18:36 (-0500): >> >> 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.)
Thanks, Michael. Curious about that command. Think I'll hold off, though, on using vim to compose email. For now anyway. > 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. It's just a matter of whether you wrap your paragraphs? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir [email protected] "Human coexistence and social life constitute the good common to us all from which and thanks to which all cultural and social goods derive." - Zygmunt Bauman -- 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
