[CLUE-Tech] RE: vim question: doing a large document using join (Todd A. Gibson)

[Collins]

On Fri, 10 May 2002 23:10:57 -0600 David Anselmi
<anselmi at americanisp.net> wrote:
> Mick Heath wrote:
> 
> > Todd,
> >
> > I think fmt will do what you want.
> >
> > fmt -w 80 <oldfile>newfile
> 
> Well, I think Kevin wants one line per paragraph, not lines broken
> at 80 columns.  I could be wrong.
> 
> 
> > Or, if you're within vi you can still use fmt.
> >
> > Position to the first line of the file
> > Determine how many lines are in the file, let's say 345
> > Type 345!!fmt -w 80
> 
> Seems easier to do this in line mode:
> 
> :%!fmt -w 80
> 
> will pipe all the lines in the file into fmt and replace them with
> the output.
> 

Cool, but it needs to be preceded by a rexp to remove leading
whitespace.  fmt will not combine this into a single paragraph:

These are some
   lines that should be
     a paragraph.

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