Braun Brelin <bbrelin at gmail.com> writes:
> Brian et. al.
>> Fold is perfect. That's exactly what I wanted.
Then this solution is redundant:
Braun Brelin <bbrelin at gmail.com> writes:
> Take a single (really long) line and break it up into 80 character
> lines. i.e. after every 80th character, insert a newline (or, if it's
> HTML) insert a <br>
>> I'm trying to do it with vim and the : s// but I'll do it in Perl if I have to.
I can't tell you a vim or perl way to do it, but I know a way to get the job
done (it requires using emacs for 10 seconds).
After opening the file from the command line as you'd expect:
$ emacs file.text
Move the cursor to any point on the long line (you can use the arrow keys),
and hit M-q. To save the file, hit C-x and then C-s. To exit hit C-x then
C-c.
("M-q" means hold down Meta (or Alt) and press "q", and "C-x" is hold down
Ctrl and hit "x")
That will actually wrap the lines at the 70th character, so before hitting
M-q, you'll want to:
M-8 M-0 C-x f
(which passes 80 as a numeric argument to set-fill-column)
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