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From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: alignment on the right hand side
Message-ID: <8212@alice.UUCP>
Date: 17 Sep 88 15:21:28 GMT
References: <15889@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <2000002@otter.hple.hp.com>
Reply-To: debra@alice.UUCP ()
Organization: University of Antwerp
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In article <15889@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> chang@cs.ucla.edu (Keh-Jeng Chang) writes:
>When I post articles on newsgroups, I always hope that there are some
>editors out there which can align the right hand side of my articles
>[...]
>Do you know of any such editors?  Can 'vi' do it?
Here are some replies: (I keep forgetting who sent them)

> Yes, since 'vi' can filter an arbitrary portion of its buffer
> through any filter you can use several methods to achieve
> a justified right-hand margin.

>S'funny, I seem to remember a text editor wot did paragraph re-formating
>with one keystroke...  But of course typing `{ ! } adjust -jm60 RET'
>every time you insert a word is much more efficient and mnemonic than
>`Meta-Q'.

I have something similar to the "adjust" filter bound to the control-p
key in my EXINIT. That's just as easy as Meta-Q i suppose, but it is damn
slow.

Years ago I had an mlisp-function which right-aligned a paragraph without
moving from where i was. I then had this functio bound to the spacebar...
This worked great! Of course one needed 100% of a Vax 11/780 to do this
"on the fly" and even then the vax limped behind when the paragraph became
rather long.

I have abandoned this approach long ago, cause I agree that right-adjusting
fixed-width fonts looks ugly. You shouldn't be doing it at all.

Paul.