Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:59:17 +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: <v04220804b591e33eb2fe@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <v04220802b591d8b93abc@[195.238.1.121]> 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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At 10:19 AM +0200 2000/7/12, Brad Knowles wrote: > 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. Through trial-and error, taking the same input paragraph, I can get: >>> 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). By pumping the paragraph through "par B=._A_a Q+:+ q 50bg". This is very close to the actual quoting style used by the original author(s). I think putting an extra space before the "q" might get us back to their "double space after the set of left-hand quoting character(s)". Pretty cool stuff. I think if/when I start doing e-mail with mutt once more, I'll be using par to be doing my paragraph reformatting. -- 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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