Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 23:09:16 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: David Scheidt <rufus@brain.mics.net> 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: <20011002230916.A31182@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.20.0110021637030.8280-100000@brain.mics.net>; from rufus@brain.mics.net on Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 04:52:51PM -0400 References: <20011002222645.C28111@lpt.ens.fr> <Pine.BSI.4.20.0110021637030.8280-100000@brain.mics.net>
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David Scheidt said on Oct 2, 2001 at 16:52:51:
> >
> > 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.
Interesting. I may have found it useful if I didn't use vim... it
may still be useful to batch-process text.
BTW - I checked with vim, if you use :set compatible you get the
traditional vi undo behaviour (the second u = redo). Of course, that
way you don't get multiple undo...
R
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