news.software.readers

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
>
> So that means I can use an upper case Q instead of gq for each
> paragraph to reformat? Interesting. Well, in slrn, the lines to line
> wrap

I dunno. I just know what I've used for years. :)

> Hey this is cool, thanks a lot Blinky. I am going to try this again
> when

Yer welcome. Enjoy.

> I do a newspost post, I use newspost for posting large binary posts
> like large videos that are broken into many rar segments with par2
> recovery files. I will let you know how this worked. I see my sig
> delimiter is

I have no idea about binaries. I've never posted one.

> now highlighted in yellow. I do use the same sig in newspost by
> pulling

I'm so used to that I didn't even remember it happening. I just F5'ed
to see. :)

> it in with :r~/sig. I put a symlink from sig to .signature in my $HOME
> dir to make that easier to do. Thanks again my good friend.

That would be a good way to switch sigs on the fly, too.

--
Blinky RLU 297263
Killing all posts from Google Groups
The Usenet Improvement Project:
<----------- New Site Aug 28