Re: editor settings
I'll have to try these out. Do these go in a .vimrc or .muttrc ? Or
something else?
Thanks,
Jason
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 11:37:26AM +1100, Cameron Simpson thus spake:
> On 15Dec2005 13:58, Jason Helfman <jhelfman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> | I was wondering if there is any setting that can be done in editor/mutt that
> | will post wrap everything to a character length per line. I am always
> | finding myself using vi commands to edit a document when I am editing
> | something before I send it. I am only doing this so it is properly
> | formatted.
>
> I do one of three things, depending on what I'm doing.
>
> The basic reformatter is to pipe a paragraph through fmt:
>
> !}fmt^M
>
> I have two keyboard macros obtained from others that find very handy:
>
> map ^V^I J79^V|F r^M
> map ^V^[[18~ /^[^a-z_A-Z]*$/^Mkmp?^Mj!'pfmt^M
>
> In the above, ^x is a literal ctrl-x. Those lines are from my exrc.
>
> The first one maps TAB (^I) to "join the next line then break at the
> word that crosses column 79". This lets you go to a paragraph's first
> line and just type "TAB, TAB ..." reflowing the paragraph line by line.
>
> The second maps the usual escape sequence for F7 to "go to the start
> of the current paragraph (line containing no letters) and reformat it
> using fmt". So you move to anywhere in a paragraph and press F7 and it
> gets reflowed. I've done this paragraph with it.
>
> I use these a lot. Very handy.
>
> Cheers,
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