Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:44:49 -0400 From: parv <parv_fm@emailgroups.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vi and wrap text Message-ID: <20031009014449.GA3094@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20031008235802.GA59370@alexis.mi.celestial.com> References: <20031008062245.7ea8c9b1.b_cassidy@bellsouth.net> <1665244909.20031008101914@mygirlfriday.info> <20031008170340.GA42240@alexis.mi.celestial.com> <20031008235513.GB568@moo.holy.cow> <20031008235802.GA59370@alexis.mi.celestial.com>
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in message <20031008235802.GA59370@alexis.mi.celestial.com>, wrote Bill Campbell thusly... > > I also have a locally written version of fmt that will take > a ``-q'' option to handle e- mail quoted text that removes the > quotes, reformats, then puts a single level of quotes back on I hear par(1) can out do both fmt(1) & vim's wrapping functions. After installing it once, had not the time to pour over its (massive) documentation. So i personally have not used it, but i think it will/should fit you. > (nothing nearly as neat as Damian Conway's perl modules for > formatting, but I've never gotten my head around them :-). Quite a while ago, i had tried Text::Autoformat for a brief period, right inside a procmail recipe (to wrap the e-mail message bodies of those who do not), but it mangled the quoted text very badly of just about every message. (IIRC, in this context i became aware of par by the way.) Text::Autoformat does work quite good on regular text (non e-mail like text). - Parv --
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