Re: GENERAL: Formatting text in Linux?

On comp.editors, in <slrndhgf2q.fve.ohmster@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "The
Ohmster" wrote:

> On 2005-09-02, Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On comp.editors, in <slrndhfqkc.16k.zzzzzz@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Alan
>> Connor" wrote:
>>
>><snip>
>>
>>
>>> You have to do it one paragraph at a time, though. I don't
>>> know how to make vi do it on a whole file with a lot of
>>> individual paragraphs with a single command.
>>
>> Got it:
>>
>> map V :%!par w50^V^M
>>
>><snip>
>>
>> AC
>
> Phew! That will take a little time to study and digest. Saved
> to a text file, thanks Alan.

Hi Ohmster,

Not really hard: Hit capital V and the whole file (% = 1,$) is
piped to par w50 with the ! command, and I guess the Sychronous
Idle+Carriage Return(^V^M) tells vi to accept the standard
output of par back where the original file was (overwrites the
buffer). It must. The ":" is just the ex command, like you'd use
to type :wq to exit vi. Or :s/X/Y/g.

You have the ascii utility? Try these:

ascii '^V'
ascii '^M'
ascii '^J'
ascii '^I'

Then feed the command the synomyms, like:

ascii '\n'

Here are some useful links about vi macros:

This one first: http://soma.npa.uiuc.edu/docs/vi.macros

http://grox.net/doc/unix/exrc.php
http://grox.net/doc/unix/exrc.txt

There's also some good macro stuff in the VI FAQ, which is posted
on this group regularly.

Later,

AC

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