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Newbie working with plain text: best practices for formatting etc?
Matthew Chagnon | Jan 22 2008
Hey all, I've searched far and wide online and am really surprised not to find very much info on this (perhaps I'm using the wrong search terms!). After reading Bit Literacy, I decided that I wanted to starting using plain text files more at work, especially for notes. Unfortunately, years of reading 43F has enhanced my fiddly nature, and I'm more focused on trying to format my notes "correctly," or at least to have some sort of standard to stick to. Does anyone have any best practices (or web resources) for working with text on a page? Currently, I find text files difficult to read (and line breaks confusing). Any thoughts? 26 Comments
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 reformat paragraphs in vimSubmitted by kuperman on January 22, 2008 - 8:12pm.
If you are doing text editing in vim (the default in OS X and many linux distributions), there are some better ways to do this. Usually, you'll do it with the command 'gq' which reformats a paragraph. I like to do visual selection with 'V' and then reformat. You can also just do 'gqip' and it will reformat the paragraph you are currently in. It also supports reformatting numbered lists or bulleted lists as well. You might want to check out
For external programs, I do use a script 'tblfmt' that lines everything up in columns -- useful for making tables. » POSTED IN:
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