replying to long lines (was Unix)

[Christian]

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 12:54:51PM +0800, Bevan Broun wrote:
 
> I set textwidth=80 and vim automatically wraps while typing BUT if I
> go back and start inserting text in the middle of a line then the line
> will be pushed over 80 chars. I just keep typing and then visually
> select the paragraph/line and do a "gq". You could write a mapping for
> this.

Hmmm... that's pretty much what I'm doing at the moment.  It's just
annoying.  Vim ought to be able to do something that any two-bit text
editor can do. :(

Regards,

Christian.