Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 00:32:18 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/6950 Message-ID: <19980617003218.B348@flarn.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <19980617015136.D29516@stade.co.uk>; from Adrian Wontroba on Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 01:51:36AM %2B0100 References: <199806161923.MAA27001@freefall.freebsd.org> <19980617015136.D29516@stade.co.uk>
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On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 01:51:36AM +0100, Adrian Wontroba wrote:
> A good point. The only ones I routinely use interactively are gfmt
> (slightly better formatting) and gtail -f <files> to watch the end
Not that it matters for anything, but the only use I have for
fmt is wrapping mail in vi. When I ran Linux, I wrote mail in
Emacs, so I never got used to gfmt. When I switched to FreeBSD
and later started writing mail in vi, I quickly upgraded from
fmt to par, which is also in the ports collection. It handles
wrapping quoted text, which is the only fancy feature I need
("par p2" if you have a two-character quote like "> " above).
I do recall the multiple-file "tail -f" now that you mention it.
It is a good feature for interactive use, I agree. Somebody wants
to submit patches against our tail(1), right? :-)
Matt
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