Re: Define Key for: Select paragraph, join lines, autowrap margins

> On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 11:39:57AM +0100, Marcin Szamotulski wrote:
>On 20:15 Thu 06 Oct , Roger wrote:
>> > On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 07:36:45PM -0800, Roger wrote:
>> >Here's something I've been looking for how to do for a long time now.
>> >
>> >Select a paragraph with uneven line counts past right margin, and
>> >re-justify the text in respect to margins.
>> >
>> >map <F9> vipJQQ<CR>
>> >
>> >
>> >Puts in 'v' visual mode, 'ip' selects the (inner) paragraph under the
>> >cursor, 'J' joins all the lines of the selected paragraph into one line,
>> >and 'Q' for re-wrap the text in respects to the margins.
>> >
>> >(For some reason, I had to specify 'Q' twice?)
>> >
>> >Works sweetly now for email! Now tell me, something like this is already
>> >created for VIM.
>>
>> I've done some testing with the above and adding the following might also be
>> also be wise as I'm usually in edit mode.
>>
>> imap <F9> <ESC>vipJQQ<CR>
>>
>>
>> However, if I'm replying to an EMail, the prefixed line of ">" (ie. see
>> above), will be included within the line rejoining, further embedding the
>> line prefix char into the lines.
>>
>> I'm guessing something like search/replace (or maybe even GAWK) to first,
>> detect a char prefixed line, then strip the char and add the prefix after
>> reformatting is completed on an EMail.
>>
>> -- Roger http://rogerx.freeshell.org/
>>
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>
>For me this works well:
>map <F9> vipgw
>imap <F9> <Esc>vipgqa " will end in insert mode again.
>and it will not mess the lines which start with >.
>
>Best,
>Marcin

I tried your suggestion and your key sequence is still mangling the email line
prefix (>).

FYI: I'm using Mutt with VIM as the email editor.

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