fmt: How to skip some text?

[Alan Jackson]

It's a bit more work, but you might be able to do that with the perl
module Text::Balanced or Text::Autoformat


On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 07:42:48 -0400
Joel Hammer <Joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion.
> 
> > !Gsed '/^  /d' | fmt -w 130<ENTER>
> 
> This doesn't do what I need, however.
> 
> The newly formatted document will only contain lines which didn't begin
> with a blank. Lines beginning with a blank are deleted.
> 
> I did try a sed solution with fmt, though. Please see my post:
> "Bug in fmt?" elsewhere on this list.
> 
> Joel
> 
> > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > >I want to use fmt in vi to format text, eg:
> > >          :1,$ ! fmt -w 130
> > >
> > >Without vi, this command would look like:
> > >          cat file ! fmt -w 130
> > >
> > >I want it to format everything except lines which begin with at least
> > >two blanks, like this:
> > 
> > Extend your command to pipe it through sed first:
> > 
> > This will format the entire document
> > Go to the top of the document (1G);
> > !Gsed '/^  /d' | fmt -w 130<ENTER>
> > 
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