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From: shorne@citron (Scott Horne)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Paragraph Re-Formating in vi
Message-ID: <2376@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jul 88 13:25:07 GMT
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From article <2226@copper.SDP.TEK.COM>, by jackd@copper.SDP.TEK.COM (Jack Decker):
> I know you vi can do wrapped margins when you are initially entering
> text, but is there any way to force it to reformat the paragraph if
> you add or delete text to a paragraph that already exists?

Yes, but it requires an external program called `fmt'.

Go anywhere within the paragraph you want to format, then type this:

{!}fmt<cr>

The <cr> represents "carriage return".

`fmt' should be in your /usr/ucb directory.