OT: hanging paragraph in email message body

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 09:25:32AM +0100, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > In vim, just type 'gqap' on the paragraph to reformat it. Evolution
> > seems to do hanging indents too.
> 
> vim doesn't much like * as the list marker though:
> 
>  * Here's an example of what vim does to a long line I started with an
>  * asterisk.
> 
> It thinks the asterisks are part of a C comment, I believe. It should be
> posible to change this, but it behaves much better with -:
> 
>  - Here's an example of what vim does to a long line I started with a
>    hyphen.

I usually do ':set comments=bf:*'.

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]