Re: Text editor
From Anton <ant...@g[oogle}mail.com>
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· 26 Feb 2008 21:11 · View full thread
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Jamie: > I'm not really familiar with all of its formatting abilities, but it > does have a "gqap" feature. Place the cursor over a paragraph and key > in gqap it'll format the line into a paragraph. (I know there are more > formatting capabilities, I've seen them. It's just that if you don't > use em' you tend to forget) Looks like I have a similar thing in FAR: it re-formats the selected paragraph(s) according to a pre-defined template. It is handy for e-mail and other light things, but not for large documents. > One thing I *do use* is its ability to work with other tools, you can > highlight the text to process and hit !command and it'll process the > selected text with whatever command you like. Hmmm, that should be useful! Though all these external utilities (formatters) are weakly coupled with the editor, getting to input plain text and returning plain text. But a real editor should store text as a set of paragraphs endowed with styles, plus various objects (ascii-drawings, tables...) to be wrapped according to the desired wrap options. MS Word 5.5 works this, but it's worse than modest a word processor anyway... And it doesn't export to preformatted text many of it's formatting features, though they're correctl displayed in text-mode inside Word... > 'course.. I don't know what is available for windows in this area, > look into cygwin for stuff, they might have a "recode" and an "indent" > tool. I'll install any of them on my MacBook if'll need to...
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