Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mayoff
From: mayoff@cs.utexas.edu (Robert Mayoff)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi for power users
Message-ID: <1021@grit.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 9 Dec 90 02:36:46 GMT
References: <joshi.660534836@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1013@tokio.cs.utexas.edu> <joshi.660705889@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Dept of Computer Sciences, UTexas, Austin
Lines: 23

In article <joshi.660705889@m.cs.uiuc.edu> joshi@cs.uiuc.edu (Anil Joshi) writes:
>mayoff@cs.utexas.edu (Robert Mayoff) writes:
>>  !}fmt<RETURN>
>
>I tried to do this. I got a message that said that something like 
>"}fmt command not found".

Well, I get this error message

  }fmt: Command not found.

if I type "!}}fmt".  Make sure you are not hitting "}" twice.  If that doesn't
work, this should still work:

  :.,/^$/!fmt

which pipes from the current line through the next blank line through the fmt
program.  Note that this will not work if there are no more blank lines in the
file.
-- 
/_  rob		<mayoff@cs.utexas.edu>
 /_ Fun things to do with UNIX (#72 in a series):
  / cat /dev/zero > /dev/null