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   Oliver to All   
   Re: Fixing Thunderbird, gVim and Windows   
   11 Feb 24 14:57:58   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.software.thunderbird   
   From: ollie@invalid.net   
      
   On Sun, 11 Feb 2024 12:56:32 -0800, Stan Brown    
   wrote   
      
   > 3. You can of course rewrap previously typed lines, with the gq   
   > command. Again, the rewrap inserts hard returns.   
      
   I can't get "gq" to work. It says "Not an editing command :gq".   
   Can you explain how it would work in a typical gvim session?   
      
   1. I compose a lengthy diatribe in gvim without line length worries.   
   2. I've pasted extra stuff into that treatise, with other line lengths.   
   3. Now I want to format the whole mess into nice neat lines using   
       :set textwidth=80   
       :set wrapmargin=8   
      
   What exactly do I do because everything I've just tried doesn't do it.   
      
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