Hi,
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 10:28:21AM +0200, Philip Hands wrote:
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net writes:
yes. i am constantly having to hand-edit people's replies to add line-breaks. it's been amazingly tedious.
Does whatever is your favoured editor not have a widget for that sort of thing?
I usually use 'fmt' to create line-breaks semi-automatically. Many text editors for Unix like systems (e.g. vi) allow to invoke external programs as filters to manipulate (part of) the text.
Example for vim to insert line-breaks into the current line:
:.,.!fmt
Example for vim to re-adjust line-breaks of a paragraph:
!}fmt
But you all knew this already anyway. ;)
It still is more tedious to have to adjust the text for a reply than to just have a nicely formatted plain text mail to start with.
Thanks, Erik