[MlMt] Formatting correction feature?

Steven M. Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Thu Dec 17 09:31:02 EST 2020


On 17 Dec 2020, at 9:24, Nils Blomqvist wrote:

> Steven M. Bellovin Thu, 29 Dec 2016 15:01:58 -0800:
>
>> Someone once showed me how to set up 'fmt' as a service -- you select
>> the text, right-click, and invoke this service; it wraps lines at 72
>> characters. If there's interest, I'll dig up the instructions on how to
>> do it.
>
> Here’s a reply from someone looking for ”wrap to n columns”.
>
> I tried the tip from Steven M. Bellovin, but I found it will strip away
> a lot of characters, probably Unicode ones.
>
> Anyone has a tip?

The semester is about over; I may rewrite fmt to handle Unicode,
since it's been annoying me, too…


        --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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