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Re: [Nmh-workers] par vs vim gqap
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Paul Vixie |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] par vs vim gqap |
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Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:43:20 +0000 |
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On 1/27/2012 2:37 PM, Ken Hornstein wrote:
>> Does par do anything "better" than doing "gqap" in Vim? I'm recollection,
>> albeit from a few years ago, is that par inferior.
> Hm, I just tried it on the paragraph above, and it seems to do
> alright. Not sure how to easily judge whether or not it's "better"
> than par, though. Of course, the line breaking in the current mhl
> still means you have to manually fix up broken lines.
i expect that 'vim' cannot run as a filter the way 'par' or 'fmt' can,
so the relevance of
its feature level to MH's problem set is eluding me.