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Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 23:39:32 +0200
To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>,
	j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Subject: Re: code density vs readability
Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
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At 9:30 PM +0200 10/2/01, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:

>          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've never seen anything from any other program that could begin 
to compare with the paragraph formatting available in "par".  Does 
vim incorporate this code from par, or have you compared the two?

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