From: Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky@redhat.com>
To: sup-talk <sup-talk@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-talk] vim text wrapping
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:14:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1300374660-sup-1025@sochotnicky.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1300371571-sup-2777@plc.intranet.plecavalier.com>
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Excerpts from Philippe LeCavalier's message of Thu Mar 17 15:26:51 +0100 2011:
> Hi All.
>
> This is more of a vim question than it is a sup one but I'm not a
> member of the vim list so I thought I'd ask you guys first.
Really not a sup question at all, but I have no problem trying to
answer. Others might feel different though :-)
> Since I don't write very well I always end up making changes while
> re-reading myself. When I edit a line Vim doesn't wrap anymore like it
> did when I first typed the text. So all the lines I've edited aren't
> wrapped like the others. It can make reading my mail challenging at
> times.
How about "gqq"? Also "set nopaste" and "set textwidth=72" should be
of help most of the time.
> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding how to properly edit text in vim?
Nah, vim might look like a simple editor but it has more features than
most people would believe :-)
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Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky@redhat.com>
Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno
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Red Hat Inc. http://cz.redhat.com
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-17 14:26 Philippe LeCavalier
2011-03-17 15:14 ` Stanislav Ochotnicky [this message]
2011-03-17 15:33 ` Paul Grove
2011-03-17 16:10 ` James Taylor
2011-03-17 15:40 ` Tyberius Prime
2011-03-17 15:52 ` Bruno d'Arcangeli
2011-03-17 16:04 ` Erin Sheldon
2011-03-17 16:05 ` Peter Lewis
2011-03-17 16:12 ` Amadeusz Żołnowski
2011-03-17 16:47 ` Matthieu Rakotojaona
2011-03-17 16:19 ` Ico Doornekamp
2011-03-17 18:14 ` Philippe LeCavalier
2011-03-18 13:56 ` Philippe LeCavalier
2011-03-17 16:23 ` pancho horrillo
2011-03-17 17:46 ` Bruno d'Arcangeli
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