Re: [TCLUG:10225] Word wrapping in vi

[^chewie <chewie@wookimus.net>]

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, John R. Sheets wrote:

> Not sure if this will work in non-vim vi, though, if that matters. 
> Another *very* cool feature in vim is line re-wrapping, including the
> ">" quote marks in emails.  You just do a <esc>gq followed by a
> normal movement command, just like you were doing a 'd' or 'c' or
> whatever command.  If you also have the textwidth set, you can
> reformat ugly email quotes with very little work.  My favorite key
> sequence is 'gq}'. 

Very cool ;-)  Thanks for the tip.  I love vim as an editor and couldn't
figure out how to do this.  I really appreciate it.

> Tell me about it.  (c:  I use vi for mail and admin, and emacs for
> coding.  I find myself erroneously hitting <esc> in emacs, but
> curiously, when I'm in vi, I'm fine.

You know...there is a vi emulator for emacs... ;-)  I think it's called
viper. *grin*

^chewie