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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.


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