He's made a plugin that reformats comments, and does The Right Thing with
MD within comments.
To me this is something that the text editor should do automatically.
This, and it's ilk, such as wrap, par, etc. have to be run as an external
command, piping out and in.
Respectfully,
Sherwood of Sherwood's Forests
On 5 May 2016 at 11:24, Paul J. Lucas <paul at lucasmail.org> wrote:
> I'm really not sure what you're trying to say. Your mail seems to
be all
> over the map.
>
> This certainly isn't the forum for a vi vs. emacs war.
>
> - Paul
>
> > On May 5, 2016, at 9:38 AM, Marty McGowan <martymcg at
fastmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > paul,
> >
> > being a bwk follower (the K in awk), i'm a fan of well-focused
> > tools; i suspect "wrap" is such.
> >
> > however, wrapping is but a single feature in emacs. oh, if the
world
> > had the patience to learn emacs.
> >
> > and in a note of self-contradiction, it is a bit difficult to
> > reconcile heavy command-line use with such an editor.
> >
> > i thank markdown for having lead me to OrgMode. and now my
> > command-line format converter is "pandoc". depending on
the venue
> > (e.g. leanpub) it does a fine job of producing the necessary
> > markdown.
> >
> > =*+*-
> > Marty McGowan 908 230-3739
> > mcgowan at alum.mit.edu; http://alum.mit.edu/www/mcgowan
> >
> >> On Thu, May 5, 2016, at 12:16 AM, Paul J. Lucas wrote:
> >> Hello -
> >>
> >> I?ve been hacking on wrap(1) and wrapc(1) that are text and
> >> source-code-comment reformatters, respectively, for a long time.
I
> >> started them to scratch my particular itch, namely the ability to
easily
> >> rewrap text (and, in particular, comments in source code) while in
an
> >> editor. See:
> >>
> >> https://github.com/paul-j-lucas/wrap
> >
> >>
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