[lug] vi macro for paragraph justification

[Chip Atkinson]

Use the fmt command and apply it to a paragraph.  I do this all the time.
 From "navigation mode" in vi:
!}fmt

The } means from the cursor to the end of the paragraph.  You can also 
do it from the ed command line like so:
:1,$!fmt
which will run the entire document (line 1 to the last line, $) through 
the fmt program.

You can also do similar things such as sorting like so:
:25,56!sort -nr
which sorts lines 25 through 56 in reverse (-r) numerical (-n) order.

Chip

Rick Casey wrote:

> Does anyone know of a vi macro for paragraph justification?
> One would think this would be easy to find, but searching the net came up
> short...
> 
> TIA,
> --rick
> 
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