Preformatting features of Emacs

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>]

The vim preformatting features described in the attached Eli's post
really do make me drool.  Are there any plans to write something like
that for message-mode, as `fill-paragraph' is obviously insufficient,
even in its advanced versions, like filladapt.

I'd like to start hacking on a good preformatting routine written in
Lisp (specifically for preformatting news articles), so if someone is
also doing work on this, please let me know.

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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From: Eli the Bearded <usenet-tag@qz.little-neck.ny.us>
Newsgroups: news.software.readers,alt.fan.e-t-b
Subject: Re: Details On: How To Read News With Netscape :->
Date: 25 Feb 1997 17:13:48 GMT
Organization: Some absurd concept
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Posted and mailed.

Michael Warner <warner@wsu.edu> wrote:
>I'm using trn 4.0-test50-something, and vi.  Before Pnews
>asks me if I want to Send, Abort, etc., it tells me when the
>article has over-length lines.  My practice has been to go
>back and re-wrap the lines by hand, fixing the >>>'s as I
>go.  Should I just be letting it go, trusting to my
>software, or yours, or fate, to take care of it?  Or should
>I write Wayne a note demanding my money back for his free
>software?

I use vim, a free vi clone (see URL below) with trn. In vim
the new "gq" command applied with the new "p" movement will
properly refold > indented lines.

Before:
> > This is some test text to illustrate the vim folding feature.  for this
> > test I am using vim 4.5, :set tw=55 and the gqp command applied to the
> > first line of the paragraph. Let's see how it works.
>
> Neato! Spiffy reformat, huh? Make sure you are using at least version 4.5
> (4.6 is now in beta), however.

After:
> > This is some test text to illustrate the vim
> > folding feature.  for this test I am using vim 4.5,
> > :set tw=55 and the gqp command applied to the first
> > line of the paragraph. Let's see how it works.
>
> Neato! Spiffy reformat, huh? Make sure you are using
> at least version 4.5 (4.6 is now in beta), however.

One and only one action to reformat the whole thing.

Elijah
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