Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!kz08+ From: kz08+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ken Zuroski) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: fill-paragraph in VI? Message-ID: Date: 22 Mar 90 03:43:27 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 18 A lot of people have responded to my earlier post; many thanks. The most common solution to my problem was !}fmt. But I can't get this to work! I've been trying all night. Whenever I try this I get the error message "}fmt: command not found" or something like that. What am I doing wrong? I've looked in all the manuals. It knows where to find fmt, for if I do "!fmt" the screen locks up until I do a control-d (and exit fmt). For some reason it's hanging up on the "}". But if I type that character in edit mode, it'll cause me to skip ahead a paragraph, just like it's supposed to. I tried this on two machines, one running BSD 4.xx and the other running DYNIX (uh, maybe ULTRIX; whatever a Sequent machine would run). What gives? Please forgive this novice VI user for such a simplistic question. --ken zuroski kz08@andrew.cmu.edu