[plug] vim and paragraphs

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, 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
> 
> "Not an editor command: gq"

It's not ":gq" it's just "gq", and you need to specify some form of motion.
"gqq" will nicely format the current line.
"gq}" will nicely format the current para.


Open a borning text document and 'J' all the lines into one big line, then
gqq it  You should see a formatted para.

now undo that.  Insert a '> ' at the front of the line "gqq" it, Hmmm no more
anoying >80 char lines to deal with.

It's all good.

I'm on sid vim 6.1.152-1


Yours Tony

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