[NTLUG:Discuss] email client and VIM

briank@hex.net briank at hex.net
Sun Feb 27 13:50:44 CST 2000


On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 08:45:02AM -0600, Gareth Jenkins wrote:
 
> how can you justify or format paragraphs is vi? i would love to ease of
> quick format/justification of mangled or strung out paragraphs.

If you're still using vi, you'd do well to use vim, which has a very
large number of enhancements over vi, but still maintains nearly 100%
backwards compatibility with vi.

For instance, you can easily re-format paragraphs using the visual
'gq' command...

  --Brian





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