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From: jim@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Jim Duncan)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Reformatting in vi
Message-ID: <3774@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 27 Jan 88 07:19:37 GMT
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In article <1726@ttidca.TTI.COM> kevin@ttidcb.tti.com (Kevin Carothers) writes:
>
>Time to  follow up on my own posting. 
>
>In my response  to paragraph reformatting inside vi, the technique
>I described inserted a page-full of blank lines inside the message text.
>
> (deleted many lines containing many steps, and many, many keystrokes...)
>
>P.S.
>Many Thanks to the poster of the original  question. Vi is an editor
>which gets so much bad press that I always relish getting a chance to 
>show what it can really do.
>

While it's true that vi gets a lot of bad (read "undeserved") press, I would
*not* consider this a shining example of its power.  In GNU Emacs, one moves
the point into the paragraph to be filled (assuming fill-mode is on), and
types ESC q to reformat the paragraph.  *No* blank lines are inserted.

Nonetheless, I have saved this gem for future reference.  Thanks for posting.

	Jim Duncan	jim@xanth.cs.odu.edu	..!sun!xanth!jim
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