Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 16:52:51 -0400 (EDT) From: David Scheidt <rufus@brain.mics.net> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: code density vs readability Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.20.0110021637030.8280-100000@brain.mics.net> In-Reply-To: <20011002222645.C28111@lpt.ens.fr>
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On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> > > only.) But my big plus for vim is its paragraph-level operations, eg
> > > gqap for formatting a paragraph. Not a big deal with programs, but a
> > > huge help with text and emails, and even handles quoted email
> > > correctly and is great at unmangling Outlook-generated mail. I don't
> > > think nvi has that; traditional vi doesn't.
> > >
> >
> > I'm not convinced this needs to be part of the editor. Checkout par
> > (ports/textproc/par), I think it does everything vim does.
>
> I just looked at the package description file.
>
> Par is a filter that copies its input to its output, changing all
> white characters (except newlines) to spaces, and reformatting
> each paragraph. Paragraphs are separated by protected, blank, and
> bodiless lines (see the Terminology section for definitions), and
> optionally delimited by indentation (see the d option in the Options
> section).
>
> So what would you do with par if you only wanted to format one
> paragraph in one text, and didn't want to jump through several hoops
> to do so? A common occurrence with latex documents, I assure you,
!{par
Is how I normally invoke par from vi. Sometimes, !} or ![[ or !]] too.
!{par pass the text from the cursor to the previous paragraph break (a
blank line, or as set using the para command) to par, and replaces it
with the output. !} does until the next paragraph. ]] and [[ are on sections.
Both will take a numeric arguement in the normal vi fashion.
David
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