Re: long line to paragraph all indented

On 2019-06-03, George Dinwiddie wrote:
> Tim
>
> On 6/3/19 5:43 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:
> >version 7.4 on ubuntu
> >non-gui
> >
> >given a long line indented to some nominal number of spaces, how can
> >I format this line to preset paragraph width but with each line in
> >paragraph retaining the original indentation.
> >example:
> >
> > Pour the remaining sauce over the enchiladas. Cover with leftover cheese and bake for about 20 minutes or until cheese is bubbling.
> >
> > becomes:
> >
> > Pour the remaining sauce over the enchiladas. Cover with leftover cheese
> > and bake for about 20 minutes or until cheese is bubbling.
>
> I use the external program 'fmt' to do it, like this:
>
> :.,.!fmt
>
> Does that give you the results you want?

Perhaps I misunderstood. If you want to actually reformat the line,
not just change the way it's displayed, then the normal-mode command

gqq

should do it. You may have to set 'autoindent' as well. See

:help 10.7
:help gq

Regards,
Gary

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