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From: funkstr@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Larry Hastings)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Yet another screen editor
Keywords: new editor
Message-ID: <11292@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Date: 19 Jan 91 13:16:35 GMT
References: <1991Jan16.230527.3200@cs.uiuc.edu> <3879@pta.oz.au> <1991Jan19.035637.10236@cs.uiuc.edu>
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+-In article <1991Jan19.035637.10236@cs.uiuc.edu>,
| joshi@cs.uiuc.edu (Anil Joshi) wrote:
|
| I tried using fmt to do formatting of 
| cursor to end of paragraph. It formatted the whole document.
|
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Well, I'm not sure how you called "fmt", but it works great for me... as I have
the following line in my .exrc:

map F mz{!}fmt -79^M'z

(Note that the ^M is actually a control-m, entered in vi by control-v followed
by control-m.  You'll have to fix that by hand on your end.)

This moves the cursor to the beginning of the current paragraph, and causes
vi to call "fmt -79" on the following paragraph.  This macro also makes a futile
attempt to save and restore the cursor position (which just about never works).
It's mapped to "F", which is normally used to search backwards on the line for
a character, but I never use it (if I need that I use T anyway).  Makes my
life much better...

Just make sure that the two paragraphs are separated by whitespace lines, and
it'll work great.
--
larry hastings, the galactic funkster, funkstr@ucscb.ucsc.edu

I don't speak for Knowledge Dynamics or UC Santa Cruz, nor do they speak for me