Thursday, March 5, 2020

Reformatting each line independently (how to apply an operation to each line)

Every so often, I have the need to reformat a text in such a way that each line gets fed to the reformatter (e.g., gqq) by itself. I.e., I don't want to reformat the whole text as a single block.

Is there any general way to say "Do this thing (gqq) to each line?"

I have found a workaround, which is to learn a macro (qq) to be gqq<cr>, then do:

30@q

(assuming 30 is enough)

This works, but it seems like there should be a cleaner way - that doesn't involve learning a macro.

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