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<div><div class="plaintext"><p dir="auto">On 19 Dec 2020, at 3:06, Nils Blomqvist wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p dir="auto">On 17 Dec 2020, at 15:55, Nils Blomqvist wrote:<br>
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<blockquote><p dir="auto">On 17 Dec 2020, at 15:31, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:<br>
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<blockquote><p dir="auto">On 17 Dec 2020, at 9:24, Nils Blomqvist wrote:<br>
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<blockquote><p dir="auto">Steven M. Bellovin Thu, 29 Dec 2016 15:01:58 -0800:<br>
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<blockquote><p dir="auto">Someone once showed me how to set up 'fmt' as a service -- you select<br>
the text, right-click, and invoke this service; it wraps lines at 72<br>
characters. If there's interest, I'll dig up the instructions on how to<br>
do it.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">Here’s a reply from someone looking for ”wrap to n columns”.<br>
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I tried the tip from Steven M. Bellovin, but I found it will strip away<br>
a lot of characters, probably Unicode ones.<br>
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Anyone has a tip?</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">The semester is about over; I may rewrite fmt to handle Unicode,<br>
since it's been annoying me, too…</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">After some digging I found <a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/457147">https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/457147</a>,<br>
recommending to install the Plan9 fmt port. I’ll give it a go another<br>
day.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">Works great. I installed it according to the SE post. Here’s how the command<br>
looks in the Automator workflow:<br>
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PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH 9 fmt -w 72</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">Out of curiosity, how did you install the Plan 9 stuff? It's not in<br>
Homebrew, and while I can build it all I'd rather not…</p>
<br><p dir="auto"> --Steve Bellovin, <a href="https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb">https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb</a></p>
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