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From: dab@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Dave Bozak)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Paragraph Re-Formating in vi
Summary: sure, use fmt
Keywords: vi, paragraph, reformating
Message-ID: <894@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 29 Jul 88 13:21:57 GMT
References: <2226@copper.SDP.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: dab@oswego.oswego.edu.UUCP (Dave Bozak)
Organization: SUNY Oswego
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In article <2226@copper.SDP.TEK.COM> jackd@copper.SDP.TEK.COM (Jack Decker) writes:
>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?
Sure, use fmt (if you don't have it on your system, there are PD versions):

:f,l!fmt

where f is line number of first line of paragraph
and   l is line number of last line of paragraph

-dave
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