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From: patkar@cb.ecn.purdue.edu (The Silent Killer)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: formatting in vi
Message-ID: <215@cb.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 88 18:27:45 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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>There has been a problem I have had with formatting paragraphs in
>vi: the definition using "}" seems to be "up to the next empty line",
>but when editing *roff files I only want to format up to the next
>line containing a dot command.
>
>So, how do I easily tell vi to stop where desired?


    You can put the following line in your .exrc.

map  /^\.

Then you can just type  to format the paragraph. This macro
will search for a dot at the beginning of a line, mark it as 'a,
go back to the original position and format till the marked line.



>Robert J. Drabek

Anant patkar