Re: Formatting Posts With VI

From: Ayaz Ahmed Khan (resilient_at_myrealbox.com)
Date: 09/12/04 

Date: 12 Sep 2004 07:49:35 GMT

"Floyd L. Davidson" typed:

> 2) Use emacs instead of vi and you can reformat
> your own paragraphs, *and* the ones you quote
> with a properly placed quote prefix on each
> line.

But running Emacs every time one has to write a post or edit a
postponed post is just not fast enough. And besides, Emacs isn't the
right tool if all one wants to do is edit a file, close the editor
once editing is done, then again open the editor to edit the same
file or another file, and so on.

As far as Emacs' manual is concerned, Emacs should be run once every
time one logs into the system and be closed when one logs out of the
system. 

-- 
Ayaz Ahmed Khan, <http://fast-ce.org/linux>
"We blew it -- too big, too slow ..."
 -- Bill Gates talking about NT, as noted by Steven McGeady of
 Intel during a meeting with Gates.

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