Answer by ncmathsadist for vim command to restructure/force text to 80 columns
Almost always I use gq in visual mode. I tell my students it stands for "Gentlemens' Quarterly," a magazine for fastidious people.
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Thanks to a comment from DonaldSmith I found this, as the textwidth option didn't reformat my long line of text (I was converting playing with hex-to-byte conversions)::%!fold -w 60That reformated the...
View ArticleAnswer by Ehtesh Choudhury for vim command to restructure/force text to 80...
If you're looking for a non-Vim way, there's always the UNIX commands fmt and par. Notes: I can't comment on Unicode, it may or may not behave differently.@nelstrom has already mentioned using par in...
View ArticleAnswer by JohnGH for vim command to restructure/force text to 80 columns
You can use gq with any movement operators. For example, if you only want to reformat to the end of the current line (i.e. to wrap the line that your cursor is on) you can use gq$You can also reformat...
View ArticleAnswer by Alex Hirzel for vim command to restructure/force text to 80 columns
Michael's solution is the key, but I most often find I want to reformat the rest of thecurrent paragraph; for this behavior, use gq}.
View ArticleAnswer by Michael Madsen for vim command to restructure/force text to 80 columns
Set textwidth to 80 (:set textwidth=80), move to the start of the file (can be done with Ctrl-Home or gg), and type gqG.gqG formats the text starting from the current position and to the end of the...
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I know there are ways to automatically set the width of text in vim using set textwidth (like Vim 80 column layout concerns). What I am looking for is something similar to = (the indent line command)...
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