Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:58:10 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, 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: <20000712145810.A818@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <v04220802b591d8b93abc@[195.238.1.121]>; from blk@skynet.be on Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 10:19:34AM %2B0200 References: <20000712115426.N29642@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200007120617.XAA00682@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <20000712155003.W30262@wantadilla.lemis.com> <v04220802b591d8b93abc@[195.238.1.121]>
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Brad Knowles said on Jul 12, 2000 at 10:19:34: > 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) - snip - vim can also wrap quoted text quite nicely, "gqap" in command mode. On re-wrapping the stuff below to 70 chars one gets > > 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. vim seems to have changed the indentation a bit, on the other hand it retained the double spaces... IIRC, pine and pico do it correctly too. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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