Thursday, July 1, 2010

Re: format a paragraph with gq

It works! Thank you!

On Jul 1, 2:00 pm, AK <andrei....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/01/2010 02:34 PM, linjus wrote:
>
>
>
> > I often use "gq" command to format a paragraph. (As I mostly use that
> > command in "Visual mode", technically, I format a selected text, but I
> > always highlight only one paragraph.)
>
> > It seems VIM sometimes puts two spaces between two words when it has
> > to merge lines in a paragraph. For example, when tw=93 and the
> > following text is highlighted, "gq" puts two spaces right after the
> > period.
>
> > sdfs lsdkf lsdkf lsdkf lskdf lsdkf ldskf lsdkf
> > sdf.
> > flsdf
>
> > I'm not sure if this is because VIM recognizes periods and tries to do
> > some smart things, but I really do not want this. I think it's not
> > very consistent either; if the highlighted text were the following,
> > there would be only one period after the period.
>
> > sdfs lsdkf lsdkf lsdkf lskdf lsdkf ldskf. lsdkf flsdf
> > sdf sdf sdf sdf sdf sdf sdf
>
> > I don't know if my guess is correct, but the above example reproduces
> > the problem. How can I enforce VIM to put only one space even though a
> > line ends with a period?
>
> > Just in case you may wonder my configuration, I'm using GVIM under
> > Windows 7 and my "formatoptions" is "tcq".
>
> > Thank you!
>
> :set nojoinspaces
>
> :help 'joinspaces
>
>    -ak
>
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