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Thursday Jun 08, 2006


I'm pretty fond of this:

In my ~/.exrc file I have mapped "F" to format from the current
location to the end of the paragraph:

    $ cat .exrc
    :map F !}fmt -65

I'm pretty sure this is not an original thought.  I'll give
credit to the man page of fmt and probably "UNIX Power Tools" I
like it because it formats my plain old ASCII text to 65
columns.

I've been doing this for more than ten years, and when I get a
new account it's one of the first things I notice missing, so I
repair it right away.

It sounds trivial, I'm sure, but there it is...  one of my
quirks, wide open for the world to see.

I hope you're happy.  I am.

Comments:

M-q

Posted by Smug Emacs User on June 08, 2006 at 10:48 PM PDT #

But emacs can do this . . . (Just Kidding! I have been responsible for hooking 2 sysadmins from pico to vi after a quick boot-from-cd-to-fix-solaris demonstration.

Posted by Craig A. Betts on June 17, 2006 at 09:21 AM PDT #

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