Re: [vile] Is there a way to apply CTRL-Af} to the whole of a file when it's loaded?

[James Freer]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, Chris Green wrote:

> I'd like to do a sort of CTRL-Af} filter on a file as it's fed into vile
> when I reply to an E-Mail using mutt.  This would reformat the long
> lines that a few systems produce into nicely formatted paragraphs, using
> the filter above means that the '>' quote markers are preserved.
>
> Is there any way of doing this when you run vile (i.e. a command line
> parameter)?
>
> --
> Chris Green

I have been investigating this recently on several console editors. You want to 
know if there's a linewrap like wordstar's ^B (Joe's editor's jstar for 
example) or Pico's ^J and i don't think there is.

I was trying to find out if there was a vim's Set linebreak equivalent in any 
console editor so that i could use it for text word editing (as opposed to 
progammer's coding). The only alternative was emacs "visual line mode". All the 
graphical editors do it but not console. My editor of choice would be Joe as i 
used a wordstar editor first years ago and the keybindings are still the most 
efficient.

For my requirements i'm gradually getting used to vim which can do anything... 
but quite a bit of reading is involved. Like you i wnat to use the same editor 
for text as i do for answering email (i use alpine).

james
Are you Chris Green from Suffolk?