Re: What did I do?

On Jan 16, 3:39 pm, Chris Lott <ch...@chrislott.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> >> As discussed recently in a parallel thread, if you have flowing
> >> text where paragraphs are reflowed inserting linebreaks (rather than
> >> your paragraphs being all on one line), it's not quite as useful.
> >> For that, you might investigate "wdiff" to compare the files.
>
> > Hmm. Haven't encountered the concept of "flowing" text previously.
> > I believe my paragraphs have two linebreaks between them.
>
> I believe "flowing text" is referring not to the line breaks between
> paragraphs, but having paragraphs each be one long line of text
> (rather than breaking each line with a line break as the quoted text
> above does), which is sometimes (often?) the preferred mode when
> working with prose.
>

Both wrong :-)

I assume this thread was what Tim was referring to:

http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/browse_thread/thread/1cf354d1763446bf

Specifically, changing something like this:

The quick brown
fox jumps over
the lazy dog.

To something like this, will not diff very usefully if you're not
interested in whitespace/linebreaks, as is likely in prose:

The quick brown fox jumps over
the lazy dog.

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