fmt -w 60 does what you want if you can get your editor to hook to an external function. Or you can do it on command line.<br><br>fmt is part of Gnu coreutils package<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Walt Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:waltechmail@yahoo.com">waltechmail@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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hi,<br>
<br>
I want to do a simple text wrap at 60 chars per line<br>
in google groups mail compose.<br>
The google groups compose window gives a very long line<br>
that one can type in, but after a post, I see it automatically<br>
moves end-of line words to the next line in display. Apparently,<br>
it's 60 chars. Don't know if thats a user set option<br>
or not. Haven't used it enough. I like shorter lines and<br>
don't want to type the whole dang document letting google<br>
flow all of it. I want to set my own width.<br>
<br>
<br>
In any event, I'd like to cut the entire text and paste it<br>
into an editor and allow the editor to flow all the text<br>
with a preset 60 char max width ( or other width).<br>
I've needed this feature for other docs when pasting in<br>
yahoo, or transferring from a simple gedit.<br>
<br>
Preferrably, I'd like to do it in gedit, abiword, or OO.<br>
Or some other popular/distro supplied editor...<br>
<br>
gedit or abiword won't seem to be able to do it.<br>
I can't find a setting or setup in OO to do it, as I would<br>
expect OO to do it.<br>
How about another text editor ? Prefer to use common guii's.<br>
I don't mind editors like nano or pico but prefer not to<br>
script or use long control sequences in vi.<br>
<br>
<br>
thx,<br>
Walt . . . .<br>
<br>
<br>
(FYI: crosspost- I also put this on the google maillist for<br>
unallocatedspace)<br>
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<br>
<br>
There's a shortage of technical workers for jobs that don't exist yet.<br>
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