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Ohmster wrote:
> Ohmster wrote in
> news:Xns99A3ECD65831FMyBigKitty@ :
>
>> Blinky the Shark < @ > wrote in
>> news:slrnfdn62k.6jj. @ :
>>
>>> 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/^-- ${gq^
>>>
>>> Do a bunch of editing; more than one para; make lines lengths ugly.
>>>
>>> Then press F5.
>>
>> Blinky,
>>
>> When I use vim as my editor in slrn, the lines wrap by themselves so
>> the F5 macro is not essential. I did want to use it though for a
>> different news posting program, newspost which is a command line
>> program that calls my EDITOR, vim in my case, for doing the text
>> preface file. I tried to use F5 in that and it did not do anything. I
>> was able to use upper case Q instead of gq and that
>> did work to reformat and give me line wraps.
>>
>> How come your macro won't work in newspost as in:
>>
>> newspost -E -c -s "Juki 586" *
>>
>> " Use newspost to post to default newsgroup
>> " ", -E open vim editor for preceding
>> message, -c create sfv file and specify sfv filename, -s use subject
>> in quotes, * all files in current directory"
>>
>> I would like to use this macro for that because newspost does not
>> offer any auto-wrapping feature like slrn does with vim, any idea of
>> how to make it work?
>>
>> Kewl macro, thanks!
>>
>
> Blinky,
>
> Here is how newspost makes temp files for editing with vim:
>
> From .newspostrc:
> # directory for storing temporary files
> tmpdir=/tmp/ohmster_newspost
>
> Info from /tmp while making a post with vim:
>
> [ohmster@ohmster ohmster_newspost]$ pwd
> /tmp/ohmster_newspost
>
> * Show you where we are. newspost is up with vim as the editor.
>
> [ohmster@ohmster ohmster_newspost]$ ls -la
> total 16
> drwxrwxr-x 3 ohmster ohmster 4096 Sep 7 00:19 .
> drwxrwxrwt 19 root root 4096 Sep 6 23:06 ..
> drwx------ 2 ohmster ohmster 4096 Sep 7 00:19 newspost-mEldwU
>
> * Showing the contents of the temp dir with active vim edit session.
>
> [ohmster@ohmster ohmster_newspost]$ ls -la
> total 16
> drwxrwxr-x 3 ohmster ohmster 4096 Sep 7 00:20 .
> drwxrwxrwt 19 root root 4096 Sep 6 23:06 ..
> drwx------ 2 ohmster ohmster 4096 Sep 7 00:20 newspost-HN4MMs
>
> * Show contents of temp dir with a new newspost session, new vim post
> session:
>
> [ohmster@ohmster ohmster_newspost]$
>
> So how can I incorporate this info into your macro to make it useful in
> newspost?

I dunno.

That said...

I use gvim, and that shows the filename being edited on its title bar.
If you can see the name of the file you're editing from newspost (all I
see are directories in what you posted) you can probably use that
instead of the references to .article and and .followup in the current
macro. Or else maybe if you don't specify any filenames it will work on
all files.

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