[HN Gopher] Par: Paragraph reformatter, vaguely similar to fmt, ...
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Par: Paragraph reformatter, vaguely similar to fmt, but better
Author : ingve
Score : 9 points
Date : 2023-12-23 20:52 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| JNRowe wrote:
| I've been using par for about twenty years, and 100% agree with
| its own apology: "Its only redeeming features are that it is
| extremely useful".
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| I literally have no clue what my $PAR* vars do, or what the
| odious string in my mutt config does. However, it works perfectly
| so I simply trust I won't have to figure it out again.
|
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| Oh, and check out his X-Advice1 doc. It was a really great idea
| that sadly never caught on. Scanning a years worth of my own mail
| to write this comment tells me it is just me and one friend who
| use it, and only for "should read whenever" for messages between
| eachother :/
|
| 1 http://www.nicemice.net/amc/advice-header/
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