Yes, vi can reformat a paragraph without using !child.

[Ubben Greg]

In article <2783 at solo8.cs.vu.nl> maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>
> I'd rather not reformat a long paragraph line by line, thank you.

But it's not too much harder to expand on Mr. Olekshy's macro to make it
call itself recursively until the end of a paragraph is reached.
Perhaps adding a "+f k" will work to abort the macro when the next line
doesn't contain more than one word (but I haven't tried it...)

On a related issue, does anyone know why vi has such a problem with tail
recursion?  It seems silly that simply adding an ineffective "l" command
after the recursive call will solve this -- I would think tail recursion
would be easier to implement if anything...
						-- Greg Ubben
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