vi/comp.editors/paragraph

From kencham@myria.cs.umn.edu (Deepak "Kerd")
Subject: Could someone explain what "paragraphs=IPLPPPQPP LIpplpipnpb" means ??
Date: 8 Jun 92 00:32:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: myria.kencham.707963575

Hi VI-GURUs,

Just wondering what that setting means ..... Could you help me ?

Deepak
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Sherlock Holmes observed that ".. After you have eliminated the impossible, only
the possible, however improbable, remains..". I, however, do not like to elimin-
ate the impossible. And so I believe, Holmes and Watson were gays.
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J.S.S.Holmes observed that ".. After you have eliminated the impossible, only 
the possible, however improbable, remains..". I, however, do not like to elimin-
ate the impossible. And so I believe, Holmes and Watson were gays.


From nh@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (nicholas.hounsome)
Subject: Re: Could someone explain what "paragraphs=IPLPPPQPP LIpplpipnpb" means ??
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1992 07:25:00 GMT

>From article <kencham.707963575@myria>, by kencham@myria.cs.umn.edu (Deepak "Kerd"):
> Hi VI-GURUs,
> 
> Just wondering what that setting means ..... Could you help me ?
> 
> Deepak
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sherlock Holmes observed that ".. After you have eliminated the impossible, only
> the possible, however improbable, remains..". I, however, do not like to elimin-
> ate the impossible. And so I believe, Holmes and Watson were gays.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Email: kencham@{cs,centi.cs}.umn.edu      Department of Gopher Science 
> Voicemail:(res)(612)339-8397		  University of Minnesota
> 	  (off)(612)626-7524	   	  Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> J.S.S.Holmes observed that ".. After you have eliminated the impossible, only 
> the possible, however improbable, remains..". I, however, do not like to elimin-
> ate the impossible. And so I believe, Holmes and Watson were gays.

they are (n|t)roff macros which follow a point '.' at the beginning of a line
as in:
.IP some stuff
If you are not using this they are not much use. I am occasionaly forced to
write uniplex documents which use .PA for page breaks and I sometimes set
up paragraphs for this because uniplex is so horrible but reasonably easy
to hack in vi. Of course for code use the paragraph commands '{' and '}'
also recognise curly barckets at the beginning of a line which makes it
easy to go from function to function. It realy ought to be generalised
to a sequence of space separated stuff which might start a line.


Nick Hounsome





From eric@ils.nwu.edu (Eric Goldstein)
Subject: Paragraphs and vi
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 02:16:32 GMT

Hi! 

I'm looking for a way to automatically format paragraphs using vi.

I've been using vi for years, (and I love it, and I've resisted
switching to Emacs), and all this time I've just used "J" and the
return keys.  But I really wish there was less annoying way to do it.

(At least on my system, setting the wrapmargin to greater than zero
doesn't influence the behavior of the "J" command.)


If it isn't clear what I mean by "formatting paragraphs", here is
an example:

------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a sample sentence.
This is sample sentence number two, which is longer than the others.
This is sample sentence number three.
This is sample sentence number four.

       |
       |     I want a way to automatically convert the above four lines 
       |     of text into a nicely formated paragraph.
       V 

This is a sample sentence. This is sample sentence number two, which
is longer than the others. This is sample sentence number three.  This 
is sample sentence number four.

---------------------------------------------------------------------

I would greatly appreciate any help on this!

                 -- Eric  (eric@ils.nwu.edu)

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From imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier)
Subject: Re: Paragraphs and vi
Date: 5 Oct 92 11:49:07 GMT
X-Local-Date: Monday, 5th October 1992 at 12:48pm BST

In article <1992Oct5.075455.27645@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, nh@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (nicholas.hounsome) wrote:
>From article <1992Oct4.050951.2469@ils.nwu.edu>, by eric@ils.nwu.edu (Eric Goldstein):
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>> stty: TCGETS: Operation not supported on socket
>> This is a sample sentence.  This is sample sentence number two, which
>> is longer than the others.  This is sample sentence