Re: how to shrink dot

[Scott Schwartz <schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu>]

[sorry for the delay replying; its been one of those weeks]

John writes:
| You don't need to shrink dot for this to work.  This was the kind of thing
| I thought you would have in mind.  All you have to do is to pick the whole
| lines first.  ...  x/^.*$/ x/^/a/    /

Workarounds, workarounds.  :-)

Suppose I want to do the formatting by pipeing to some program?  Then I
need the selection to be correct beforehand.

| I don't understand this.  When you use double-click to `select a region
| with delimiters' sam _does_ exclude them from the selection: there is no
| way to get it to _include_ them.  Maybe you mean if you are using an x
| command -- can you give me another concrete example?

There I was thinking of something like clipping mailbox entries.  If
you select one with something like /^From /;/^From / you need to trim
the top and bottom to get the actual message excluding the From line.