[plug] formatting plain text in vi/vim

[Bevan Broun]

on Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 09:44:25AM +0800, Greg Gamble <gregg at maths.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I know this isn't quite the place for this ... but perhaps
> one of you can point me to the right M (and perhaps place in M) 
> so I can RTFM.
>   I am a die-hard vi/vim user (sorry, I hate emacs ... I
> know what I'm asking for, can be done with emacs). What I want
> to do is balance lines and right adjust them (by insertion of
> white space) so they are flush on the right. I seem to be able
> to do one or other, but not both via shell escapes:
> 
>   fmt ... balances up lines to any width you like, but doesn't
>           insert white space between words so that lines are
>           flush on the right
> 
>   nroff -e ... inserts white space so that lines are flush on
>                the right, but only seems to give a line width of
>                65 columns (but I want 70 columns!??)
> 

The best place to ask this is on the vim mailing list or comp.editors.
You may well find macros todo what you want if you search around on
www.vim.org.

BB
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