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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...