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> Wouldn't it be nice if the button-2 menu could have an entry to repeat
> the last command in the ~~sam~~ window?
> 
> I found myself repeating <move mouse> <click> "|fmt" just to reformat 
> paragraphs in a LaTeX document I was editing. 

If I find I have to keep using ~~sam~~ do to the same thing, I just
set dot, double click the command in ~~sam~~ and select send. It is
more mouse movement and clicks than what you are suggesting.

However, I have found that it is normally pretty easy to use sam's
command language to find the patterns I want to format.  For example if
I had a selection


Here is some text that should
be adjusted with fmt

\begin{math}
math != fmt (
	x,
	y,
		z,
	a)
\end{math}

But the above math should not, and certainly
not

\begin{quote}
a
quote
of sorts
\end{quote}


then the regex command 'x/(.+\n)+/v/^\\begin{/|fmt' applied to the
selection will run through the text and fmt only those blocks of text
that don't begin with \begin{.

If you didn't have newline seperators I imagine you could do some fancy
things with ',' and ';' and friends, but I'm not sure what. In those
cases, I normally take a three step process where one regex splits the
text into managable pieces, one regex formats select pieces, and the
last regex recombines the pieces.


Jim