Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Re: What did I do?

On Jan 16, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Tim Chase wrote:

> using "gq<motion>" to "reflow" the text according to your 'textwidth' (or 'wrapmargin' setting, something like a ludicrously small "textwidth=17" in this example). A traditional diff (such as "diff" or Vim's diffing) would tell you that *all three* lines of that first paragraph changed. OOTH, the prose-author likely only wants to know that the word "keen" was inserted (ignoring the reflowing changes).
>
> ....
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> Hope my prolix proclivities elucidated matters :)

I think they did. These are the only lines in my .vimrc that relate to margins:

set linebreak
autocmd Filetype txt set textwidth=0

I'm taking it that I've got flowing text and that diff will work for me.

Thanks,
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Eric Weir
eeweir@bellsouth.net

"Any assurance economists pretend to with
regard to cause and effect is merely a pose."

- Emanuel Derman


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