Chapter 11 Dealing with Text Files Automatic Text Wrapping :set textwidth=30 : Vim automatically inserts line breaks :set wrapmargin=10 :set textwidth=70 (:set textwidth=0 means use default value 80) which means you have a screen that is 80 characters wide, but you at most can have 70 characters in one line Bad Thing: if you delete something from one line, all you get is a short line! How to get the paragraph into shape: 1. a) select the paragraph as part of visual selection b) execute gq command 2. a) gq<motion> command: like gq4j which means formating 5 lines starting from the current line 3. a)position the cursor on the first line of the paragraph b)gq} command (no need to count the lines) (this method has a risk: it will merge many paragraphs into one paragraph, suck! ANSWER: if you have a empty line between each paragraphs, it will work perfectly! Wonderful!) 4. a)gqip (ip means inner graph, no need to put the cursor on the beginning of a paragraph) **************************************************** Each paragraph should be separated by an empty line! **************************************************** Text Formatting Command :range center width ---> :1,5 center 30 (I haven't understood what width means) :1,5 right 30 :range left margin ---> :1 left 5 :2,5 left 0 Movement ) command: moves forward one sentence ( command: does the same thing backward } command: moves forward one paragraph { command: moves one paragraph backward
