[plug] vim and paragraphs

[Colin Muller]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 02:16:29PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Colin Muller wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 12:02:17PM +0800, Russell Steicke wrote:
> > 
> >>Can someone please tell me how to justify a paragraph using vim?  I
> >>keep starting it to edit small text documents, changing a couple of
> >>words, and ending up having to hand-edit all the lines in a
> >>paragraph to make it look pretty again.
> > 
> > 
> > :gq
> 
> Interesting. While ":help gq" gets me info on the gq command, vim 
> doesn't seem to actually accept it

My bad: you don't type the colon. Weirdly enough, I managed to include
the colon even though I double-checked the commands in a vim instance
while I typed the original mail. Something about "Do as I do, not as I
say I think I do" :-)

Colin

> 
> "Not an editor command: gq"
> 
> vim version 6.1.18 ( debian version 6.1.018-1 )
> 
> I presume there's something embarrasingly obvious I'm missing? :Q 
> doesn't work either.
> 
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> Craig Ringer
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