Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:19:34 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: : cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make arch.c buf.c compat.c cond.c dir.c for.c hash.c job.c main.c make.c parse.c str.c suff.c targ.c util.c var.c Message-ID: <v04220802b591d8b93abc@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <20000712155003.W30262@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000712115426.N29642@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200007120617.XAA00682@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <20000712155003.W30262@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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At 3:50 PM +0930 2000/7/12, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 11 July 2000 at 23:17:16 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >>>> And if you've got a good way of working out how to wrap quoted text, go >>>> ahead and fill the rest of us in on it. 8) BTW, in case this hasn't been mentioned before, I believe that there is a program in /usr/ports/textproc called "par". It's supposed to be really good at reformatting paragraphs and keeping things like quoting characters aligned, etc.... >>> Emacs has a line wrap macro which understands quoted text. Taking >>> Fred's paragraph above, it makes this out of it: >>> >>>>>> I can try to wrap, but I'd have to do so by hand. But wrapping >>>>>> text at the sender's end is not the right thing. Your mail client >>>>>> is broken, as it should wrap for you. You might try fixing that >>>>>> rather than expecting everyone to hard-wrap text for you. Some of >>>>>> us like letting our clients wrap the text for us as we change the >>>>>> window size. >>> >>> That's m-q when running in letter mode (I think). Let me try re-wrapping the above lines with par: >>> Emacs has a line wrap macro which >>> understands quoted text. Taking Fred's >>> paragraph above, it makes this out of >>> it: >>> >>>>>> I can try to wrap, but I'd have >>>>>> to do so by hand. But wrapping >>>>>> text at the sender's end is not >>>>>> the right thing. Your mail client >>>>>> is broken, as it should wrap for >>>>>> you. You might try fixing that >>>>>> rather than expecting everyone to >>>>>> hard-wrap text for you. Some of us >>>>>> like letting our clients wrap the >>>>>> text for us as we change the window >>>>>> size. >>> >>> That's m-q when running in letter mode >>>(I think). This was produced by running this paragraph (in vi ;-) through "par w42". I note that it removed the double space characters. I'm sure this could be fixed,but the syntax to par is unfortunately rather complex, and I've only begun to explore the examples. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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