XPost: news.software.readers   
   From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Phil Boutros  wrote:   
      
   >["Followup-To:" header set to news.software.readers.]   
      
   I'm retaining the crosspost.   
      
   >Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
      
   >>Good heavens.   
      
   >>First starting on Usenet in the '90s, my newsreader called the text   
   >>editor of my choice for use in the composer. I used the original vi.   
   >>Much later, I switched to vim. I had to enter my own line boundary   
   >>within paragraphs. It was just like using a typewriter. It was something   
   >>I was used to.   
      
   >    Some of us still do this, as we have since the 90s (currently on   
   >VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2.  Just set your textwidth appropriately in vim,   
   >no problem.  You certainly never needed to manually enter carriage   
   >returns "like using a typewriter" if you knew what you were doing.   
      
   Yeah, I know, but it's not a setting I want turned on much of the time.   
      
   >>If I add text within a line, I have to reformat the paragraph and call a   
   >>separate paragraph formatter. I usually use fmt but there are others.   
      
   >    You don't need to go through all that.  Just join all lines   
   >(hitting j as required or vipJ to select the whole paragraph in visual   
   >mode, then join it), then gqq.  Done.   
      
   That's multiple commands! !fmt -76 (or whatever line length)   
      
   >>. . .   
      
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