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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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 , 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) -- 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