9 Mar
2023
9 Mar
'23
12:45 a.m.
Larry McVoy wrote in
<20230308182120.GL5993(a)mcvoy.com>:
|I really miss terminal rooms. I learned so much looking over the
|shoulders of more experienced people. Wait, you can run a paragraph of
|text through fmt(1)? How the heck did you do that?
|
|I don't really miss it for me, I'm retired, but I think kids learning
|are sort of at a disadvantage. Not sure there is a youtube video that
|teaches you to say:
|
|:map , !}fmt<CR>
vim can do this built-in (sufficiently for me).
map <F11> <Esc>{gq}
Rarely (GNU) fmt (only, the latter) can really do better
map <F12>M <Esc>:'{,'}!fmt 64 66<CR>
map <F12>m <Esc>:'{,'}!fmt --uniform-spacing --width=66
--goal=64<CR>
I have forgotten the cryptic meaning - Don't ask me no question,
I know a little, All i can do is write about it, Am i losin',
I never dreamed That smell (sweet home alabama).
I must now get explicitly rid of things in [ci]?map however (like
<C-A> <Nop>, C-X, C-E etc) to be a free bird. 'Just a Simple
Man. But enough Lynyrd Skynyrd southern US! (Sorry!)
For decades i want to check out vile, but never made it there for
long. (Now that i switched back to tabulator indentation maybe.
It now can spaces, on the other hand, i think. Comments
auto-joining back over lines in vim's C mode is so nice, then
again.)
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)