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Date:      Wed, 3 Oct 2001 01:49:04 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
To:        David Scheidt <rufus@brain.mics.net>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: code density vs readability
Message-ID:  <20011003014904.E16142@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.20.0110021606080.7990-100000@brain.mics.net>
References:  <20011002213051.A28111@lpt.ens.fr> <Pine.BSI.4.20.0110021606080.7990-100000@brain.mics.net>

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David Scheidt <rufus@brain.mics.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> 
> > only.)  But my big plus for vim is its paragraph-level operations, eg
> > gqap for formatting a paragraph.  Not a big deal with programs, but a
> > huge help with text and emails, and even handles quoted email
> > correctly and is great at unmangling Outlook-generated mail.  I don't
> > think nvi has that; traditional vi doesn't.
> > 
> 
> I'm not convinced this needs to be part of the editor.  Checkout par
> (ports/textproc/par), I think it does everything vim does. 

nvi and par are nice.  Now, if only i could get it to keep words that
are 'too long' in one line and continue on the next one.

-giorgos

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