[9fans] Acme mail "fmt"

[9fans] Acme mail "fmt"

[William Staniewicz]

I have been using Acme mail almost exclusively for all
my email. One thing I haven't used is the "fmt"
command in the taskbar of outbound mail... mainly
because I don't know what it does.

What does it do?

		-Bill

Re: [9fans] Acme mail "fmt"

[rog]

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> Just select the text and execute |fmt.

i have to say that the standard plan 9 fmt annoys me somewhat as it
doesn't preserve indentation properly.

i tend to use a port of an old bsd version which works better (although
it's probably gungier inside).  i've attached it, as it's so small.

  cheers,
    rog.

PS. warning: /bin/doc2text relies on the -j option
to fmt, which isn't in this version.


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Re: [9fans] Acme mail "fmt"

[rog]

> Just select the text and execute |fmt.

i have to say that the standard plan 9 fmt annoys me somewhat as it
doesn't preserve indentation properly.

i tend to use a port of an old bsd version which works better (although
it's probably gungier inside).  i've attached it, as it's so small.

  cheers,
    rog.

PS. warning: /bin/doc2text relies on the -j option
to fmt, which isn't in this version.

Re: [9fans] Acme mail "fmt"

[nigel]

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It helps you format very long lines like this one into a paragraph of more reasonable width. Just select the text and execute |fmt.

e.g.

IIt helps you format very long lines like this one into a paragraph of
more reasonable width.  Just select the text and execute |fmt.


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From: William Staniewicz <wstan@localhostnl.demon.nl>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Acme mail "fmt"
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 21:22:05 -0500
Message-ID: <20010305202603.C7BF219A0B@mail.cse.psu.edu>

I have been using Acme mail almost exclusively for all
my email. One thing I haven't used is the "fmt"
command in the taskbar of outbound mail... mainly
because I don't know what it does.

What does it do?

		-Bill