From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from deliverator.sgi.com ([204.94.214.10]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <44193>; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 20:04:51 -0500 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by deliverator.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980310.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id RAA02212; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:19:56 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (pj@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sam.engr.sgi.com (sam.engr.sgi.com [163.154.6.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id RAA56655; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:27:22 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (pj@engr.sgi.com) Received: from localhost (pj@localhost) by sam.engr.sgi.com (SGI-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA35696; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:27:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: sam.engr.sgi.com: pj owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 20:27:11 -0500 From: Paul Jackson To: "Fco. J. Ballesteros" cc: sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: but tom-2 repeat cmd feature? In-Reply-To: <14719.64908.755161.847689@nautilus.dat.escet.urjc.es> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Fco. J. Ballesteros wrote: > I found myself repeating "|fmt" > just to reformat paragraphs ... A simple thing I do that helps here -- I have a couple commands, named "F" and "Q", on my path, which are trivial shell scripts calling my favorite formating and quoting (prepend '> ' to each line) filters. Then the command is reduced a couple of key strokes, to such as "|F" (both of which are shifted, it happens, for even less finger calisthenics). -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Software Production Engineer Paul Jackson (pj@sgi.com; pj@usa.net) 3x1373 http://sam.engr.sgi.com/pj