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From: gbastin@x102c.harris-atd.com (Gary Bastin 60293)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Vi's (auto-fill-mode)
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Date: 25 Jan 91 14:24:50 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.225511.3375@massey.ac.nz>
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In article <1991Jan24.225511.3375@massey.ac.nz> 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

The way I have done it is to include the following two lines in a 
file called .exrc  (ex editor run command file); of course, only the
first line does the wrapping-- the second is a comment so I can remember
how to do it for some other line width :-)   

set wrapmargin=8
" Automatic CR at <= 80 - 8  (72nd) column for vi editor.  

This is very handy to have; it even works for usenet when I fall into
the default editor, which I have set to be vi, of course!  Good Luck!
Gary Bastin, WB4YAF      /-/-/      Internet: gbastin@x102c.ess.harris.com
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