Re: [vile] comment leaders and reformatting

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 5 Jun 2010, address@hidden wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm a recent vim convert and I have few lingering issues before I'm a full
> convert.  When working with TCL files I prefer my comment lines to look like
> this.
>
>         ;# comment line 1
>         ;# comment line 2
>         ;# comment line 3
>         ;# comment line 4
>
> In vim if I were to edit one of the comment lines and make it a very long line
> I could use the gq} command to reformat my comments.  This in combination with
> the 'comments' setting will reformant the block of comments inserting the ';#'
> sequence at the beginning of each line.

Two parts -

a) settings

vile uses the comment-prefix pattern, which for this case would be set
something like (in your .vilerc file):

~with define-submode tcl
set comment-prefix='^\s*;# '
~endwith

That's the same as

define-submode tbl set comment-prefix='^\s*;# '

b) reformatting

That gq} looks like vile's

        format-til next-paragraph

"format-til" is normally bound to ^A-f (control/A, f) and ^A-j.
With those bindings, you could do the analogous ^A, f, }.

Something like that (I'm usually using screen, which owns ^A...)

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