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From: karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.editors
Subject: Re: VI (can you fully justifiy test)
Keywords: VI, vi, editing tricks
Message-ID: <668287724.2919@mindcraft.com>
Date: 6 Mar 91 19:28:43 GMT
References: <1991Mar5.223022.14261@informix.com>
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In article <1991Mar5.223022.14261@informix.com> billd@infmx.informix.com
(William Daul) writes:
>Is there a way to fully justify text in VI?

    :map @ 1Gi.ad b^V^M^V^[-!Gnroff

(all keystrokes shown; "^V" (CTRL-V) is there to escape the
carriage return and the ESC)

After you make this macro, typing '@' from command mode will call
nroff to justify the whole file.

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