From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 12 2:28:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 061DF37BD72 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 02:28:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 839 invoked by uid 211); 12 Jul 2000 09:28:10 -0000 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:58:10 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Brad Knowles Cc: Greg Lehey , Mike Smith , FreeBSD Chat 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> References: <20000712115426.N29642@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200007120617.XAA00682@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <20000712155003.W30262@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from blk@skynet.be on Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 10:19:34AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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