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Ohmster wrote:
> On 2007-09-07, Ohmster wrote:
>> On 2007-09-03, Blinky the Shark < @ > wrote:
>>> Hey, plug this into your vimrc and see if it reformats the way you
>>> want after you've edited a bunch of a reply. (I saw your req in .)
>>>
>>> au BufNewFile,BufRead ~/.article,~/.followup :nmap gg/^$V/^--
>>> ${gq^
>>>
>>> Do a bunch of editing; more than one para; make lines lengths ugly.
>>>
>>> Then press F5.
>>
>> Hey Blinky,
>>
>> Sorry, I was busy with work and all and had been away from the group for
>> a while. I did notice this in the .vimrc file:
>>
>> " Don't use Ex mode, use Q for formatting map Q gq
>
> Hmmm, this did get wrapped by your macro, it should have read as such:
>
> " Don't use Ex mode, use Q for formatting
> map Q gq
>
> That should have been left alone but it is not a big deal. It is a very
> cool macro though.

It worked the way it's supposed to work. Put a blank line between two
lines that you want to be separate paragraphs. Text on adjacent lines
is one paragraph and in that case is one paragraph that's only about 44
characters long.


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