VI (can you fully justify test)

Curt J. Sampson curt at cynic.wimsey.bc.ca
Fri Mar 15 07:13:35 AEST 1991


In article <1991Mar12.055337.10655 at vpnet.chi.il.us> dattier at vpnet.chi.il.us (David W. Tamkin) writes:
>javey at hybrid.UUCP (shahram javey) wrote in <1991Mar10.215552.8366 at hybrid.UUCP>:
>
>| Someone had asked how do you justify the text from within vi:
>
>| If simple text formatting is sufficient for your needs try
>| :%!fmt
>
>fmt must be something in BSD Unix.  The question of justifying within vi
>comes up often, and someone always says "Filter through fmt, that's all!"

Yes, it is a BSDism.  However, it is available to the public at
large.  A copy comes with the mailx package.  You can ftp it from,
among other places, wimsey.bc.ca (~ftp/pub/mail/mailx.tar.Z).

cjs
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