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Matěj Cepl
Oct 1, 2017, 1:25:06 PM10/1/17
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Hi,
trying to use vim for writing long prose and I am playing with
the optimal value for formatoptions. Currently I have
set formatoptions=1tcroqlav
but I think I have something wrong. Somehow 'a' is too active
to me and I am in the situation that I cannot split a paragraph
in the middle. When I enter one CR, the line splits, but when
I press ENTER again, nothing happens. I have to set paste, make
change, set nopaste and reformat, which is obviously wrong.
What do I do wrong?
Best,
Matěj
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As a rule of thumb, the more qualifiers there are before the name
of a country, the more corrupt the rulers. A country called The
Socialist People's Democratic Republic of X is probably the last
place in the world you'd want to live.
-- Paul Graham discussing (not only) Nigerian spam
(http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html)
trying to use vim for writing long prose and I am playing with
the optimal value for formatoptions. Currently I have
set formatoptions=1tcroqlav
but I think I have something wrong. Somehow 'a' is too active
to me and I am in the situation that I cannot split a paragraph
in the middle. When I enter one CR, the line splits, but when
I press ENTER again, nothing happens. I have to set paste, make
change, set nopaste and reformat, which is obviously wrong.
What do I do wrong?
Best,
Matěj
--
http://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/, Jabber: mcepl<at>ceplovi.cz
GPG Finger: 3C76 A027 CA45 AD70 98B5 BC1D 7920 5802 880B C9D8
As a rule of thumb, the more qualifiers there are before the name
of a country, the more corrupt the rulers. A country called The
Socialist People's Democratic Republic of X is probably the last
place in the world you'd want to live.
-- Paul Graham discussing (not only) Nigerian spam
(http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html)
Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov
Oct 1, 2017, 2:43:43 PM10/1/17
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2017-10-01 14:01 GMT+03:00 Matěj Cepl <mc...@cepl.eu>:
> Hi,
>
> trying to use vim for writing long prose and I am playing with
> the optimal value for formatoptions. Currently I have
>
> set formatoptions=1tcroqlav
>
> but I think I have something wrong. Somehow 'a' is too active
> to me and I am in the situation that I cannot split a paragraph
> in the middle. When I enter one CR, the line splits, but when
> I press ENTER again, nothing happens. I have to set paste, make
> change, set nopaste and reformat, which is obviously wrong.
>
> What do I do wrong?
You are trying to use `a` without `w`. Using trailing whitespaces is
> Hi,
>
> trying to use vim for writing long prose and I am playing with
> the optimal value for formatoptions. Currently I have
>
> set formatoptions=1tcroqlav
>
> but I think I have something wrong. Somehow 'a' is too active
> to me and I am in the situation that I cannot split a paragraph
> in the middle. When I enter one CR, the line splits, but when
> I press ENTER again, nothing happens. I have to set paste, make
> change, set nopaste and reformat, which is obviously wrong.
>
> What do I do wrong?
the only sane variant of using `a` &formatoptions flag, other variants
are too restrictive and thus utterly broken.
>
> Best,
>
> Matěj
> --
> http://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/, Jabber: mcepl<at>ceplovi.cz
> GPG Finger: 3C76 A027 CA45 AD70 98B5 BC1D 7920 5802 880B C9D8
>
> As a rule of thumb, the more qualifiers there are before the name
> of a country, the more corrupt the rulers. A country called The
> Socialist People's Democratic Republic of X is probably the last
> place in the world you'd want to live.
> -- Paul Graham discussing (not only) Nigerian spam
> (http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html)
>
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Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov
Oct 1, 2017, 4:49:06 PM10/1/17
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Tony Mechelynck
Oct 1, 2017, 6:18:09 PM10/1/17
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On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Matěj Cepl <mc...@cepl.eu> wrote:
[...]
the language, what used to come before can sometimes go behind and
vice-versa. Now let's try a few examples to see how the proposed rule
of thumb stands against them:
French Republic / République française
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
United States of America
People's Republic of China / simplified hanzi: 中华人民共和国, Mandarin:
Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó, Cantonese: zung^1 waa^4 jan^4 man^4 gung^6
wo^4 gwok^3, where the first syllable is the one which conveys the
idea of "China" or "middle", or the first two syllables "Middle-land".
Russian Federation / Российская Федерация, Rossiyskaya Federatsiya
Republic of India / Bhārat Gaṇarājya (where Bhārat means "India"), I
didn't find how to write it in devanagari.
If it's in the native language, then of all the above the UK has the
most corrupt leaders, and if it's in English it's ex-æquo with China
(3 prefixed words) and more corrupt than at least three of the other
four. Where to put the USA depends on whether you regard "United
States" or "America" as the country's name, but as a caveat, in the
latter case it would seem to mean that that country lays claim to a
"legitimate home territory" extending from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego
(inclusive) with no intervening breaks… Come to think of it, maybe
that's how its present President sees things.
:-P
Tony.
[...]
> As a rule of thumb, the more qualifiers there are before the name
> of a country, the more corrupt the rulers. A country called The
> Socialist People's Democratic Republic of X is probably the last
> place in the world you'd want to live.
> -- Paul Graham discussing (not only) Nigerian spam
> (http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html)
Makes me wonder. In English or in its native language? Depending on
> of a country, the more corrupt the rulers. A country called The
> Socialist People's Democratic Republic of X is probably the last
> place in the world you'd want to live.
> -- Paul Graham discussing (not only) Nigerian spam
> (http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html)
the language, what used to come before can sometimes go behind and
vice-versa. Now let's try a few examples to see how the proposed rule
of thumb stands against them:
French Republic / République française
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
United States of America
People's Republic of China / simplified hanzi: 中华人民共和国, Mandarin:
Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó, Cantonese: zung^1 waa^4 jan^4 man^4 gung^6
wo^4 gwok^3, where the first syllable is the one which conveys the
idea of "China" or "middle", or the first two syllables "Middle-land".
Russian Federation / Российская Федерация, Rossiyskaya Federatsiya
Republic of India / Bhārat Gaṇarājya (where Bhārat means "India"), I
didn't find how to write it in devanagari.
If it's in the native language, then of all the above the UK has the
most corrupt leaders, and if it's in English it's ex-æquo with China
(3 prefixed words) and more corrupt than at least three of the other
four. Where to put the USA depends on whether you regard "United
States" or "America" as the country's name, but as a caveat, in the
latter case it would seem to mean that that country lays claim to a
"legitimate home territory" extending from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego
(inclusive) with no intervening breaks… Come to think of it, maybe
that's how its present President sees things.
:-P
Tony.
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