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       Thread[.post]: 4.18
       TACKER:  peteyboy (Pete)
       SUBJECT: .. Editing for readability
       DATE:    09-Jul-26 21:22:39
       HOST:    ryo
       
       Thanks visiblink and others.  I should set up the guidestripe for nano, 
       didn't know that was a thing!
       
       re:
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       The formatter par works as a pipe and will let you protect lines that start 
       with a given character (or characters). The following will left-justify  
       your file to 70 chars and ignore lines that start with a '*' char.
       
       par P=* 70 < post.txt | less
       
       or from within vi/vim to format the entire buffer:
       
       !Gpar P=* 70
       
       You can append 'j' (e.g. par 70j) to produce fully justified text.
       
       The par man page has a lot of examples.
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       slugmax, does your par command reconstitute short linese with lines below 
       like fmt does, because that would work awesomely for me (I understand if I 
       should rtfm)
       
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       DATE:    09-Jul-26 21:22:39
       HOST:    ryo
       
       Thanks visiblink and others.  I should set up the guidestripe for nano, 
       didn't know that was a thing!
       
       re:
       ---
       The formatter par works as a pipe and will let you protect lines that start 
       with a given character (or characters). The following will left-justify  
       your file to 70 chars and ignore lines that start with a '*' char.
       
       par P=* 70 < post.txt | less
       
       or from within vi/vim to format the entire buffer:
       
       !Gpar P=* 70
       
       You can append 'j' (e.g. par 70j) to produce fully justified text.
       
       The par man page has a lot of examples.
       ---
       
       slugmax, does your par command reconstitute short linese with lines below 
       like fmt does, because that would work awesomely for me (I understand if I 
       should rtfm)
       
       
       
       
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