Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Re: What did I do?

On Jan 16, 2012, at 7:00 PM, Michael Ludwig wrote:
>
> Eric Weir schrieb am 16.01.2012 um 18:36 (-0500):
>>
>> Still not quite clear about the concept of "flowing" and "reflowed"
>> text. The way Tim put it makes it sound like all paragraphs, not just
>> each paragraph, on one line.
>
> Don't get hung up on the words, particularly not on flowing words. You
> know what a paragraph is. So you can write a paragraph on one line, as
> you did in your mail. But see how I reformatted (reflowed) the paragraph
> you wrote above (using the gqq command - see :h gqq)? (Using vim to
> compose mail.)

Thanks, Michael. Curious about that command. Think I'll hold off, though, on using vim to compose email. For now anyway.

> And here's another paragraph you wrote; going to leave that one flowing
> as it is for the sake of the example (although I prefer mail text to be
> formatted old-fashioned style).
>
>> I'm not sure what I have. I have vim set to wrap lines at the screen, but I don't think there's any wrapping in the file. So does my text "flow" or not?
>
> And I think that's all there is to it.

It's just a matter of whether you wrap your paragraphs?

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