From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 8 18:41:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91A9C16A4B3 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 18:41:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta10.adelphia.net (mta10.adelphia.net [68.168.78.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4864243F75 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 18:41:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parv_fm@mailsent.net) Received: from moo.holy.cow ([68.67.226.198]) by mta10.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20031009014125.ZMBQ16586.mta10.adelphia.net@moo.holy.cow> for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:41:25 -0400 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DDF67B426; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:44:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:44:49 -0400 From: parv To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031009014449.GA3094@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20031008062245.7ea8c9b1.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> <1665244909.20031008101914@mygirlfriday.info> <20031008170340.GA42240@alexis.mi.celestial.com> <20031008235513.GB568@moo.holy.cow> <20031008235802.GA59370@alexis.mi.celestial.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031008235802.GA59370@alexis.mi.celestial.com> Subject: Re: vi and wrap text X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 01:41:24 -0000 in message <20031008235802.GA59370@alexis.mi.celestial.com>, wrote Bill Campbell thusly... > > I also have a locally written version of fmt that will take > a ``-q'' option to handle e- mail quoted text that removes the > quotes, reformats, then puts a single level of quotes back on I hear par(1) can out do both fmt(1) & vim's wrapping functions. After installing it once, had not the time to pour over its (massive) documentation. So i personally have not used it, but i think it will/should fit you. > (nothing nearly as neat as Damian Conway's perl modules for > formatting, but I've never gotten my head around them :-). Quite a while ago, i had tried Text::Autoformat for a brief period, right inside a procmail recipe (to wrap the e-mail message bodies of those who do not), but it mangled the quoted text very badly of just about every message. (IIRC, in this context i became aware of par by the way.) Text::Autoformat does work quite good on regular text (non e-mail like text). - Parv --