[CLUE-Tech] vim question: doing a large document using join

[David Anselmi]

Kevin Cullis wrote:

> Todd,
>
> Yes, it works, but I was wondering if there are other ways or scripts that
> would do a whole file at once.  Does it sound like I'll have to use sed to do
> the whole file?

To make all your text flush left, use

:%s/^ *//

That's a better version of what you had - substitute nothing for the spaces at
the beginning of a line, on all lines.  Then to format each paragraph:

gggqG

gg takes you to the beginning of the file.  gq formats and G takes you to the
end of the file.  Note that your textwidth, autoindent, and various other
settings may have an effect - read the help for details.

If that's all too much to type/remember, define a macro to do it.

http://soma.npa.uiuc.edu/docs/vi.macros

Dave