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From: s887212@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Stephen Riehm [Romulis])
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Vi's (auto-fill-mode)
Message-ID: <1991Jan27.035306.27823@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 27 Jan 91 03:53:06 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.225511.3375@massey.ac.nz>
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
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R.Singh@massey.ac.nz (R. Singh) writes:

>This might be a stupid one. How can you get Vi to wrap your sentences around and
>insert CR's at the end of each line. I know it is possible to do this literally
>but how do you get it to keep the words intact and not cut a sentence in a
>middle of a word. For EMACS users, an equivalent of the (auto-text-fill).
>Thanx

:set wrapmargin n
will do the trick.. where n is any nnumber >0 (n=1 will wrap 1 character
from the right margin)
another cute trick for this is to pipe paragraphs or the entire file
through fmt like

{!}fmt^M

{ - move to start of paragraph
! - pipe the following text to a program
} - specify the whole paragraph to get piped
fmt - program to pipe paragraph to

hope this helps
catch ya
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Romulis [Stephen Riehm]	         Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
					    (124 Latrobe St., Melbourne.)
s887212@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au				       Australia.

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-- 
thanx in advance
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Romulis [Stephen Riehm]	            Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
					       (124 Latrobe St., Melbourne.)