Adjusting text editor configuration can make working on document files quicker and easier, and help documents conform to FDP guidelines.
Install from editors/vim or editors/vim-lite, then follow the configuration instructions in Section 15.1.2, “Configuration”.
Press P to reformat paragraphs or text that has been selected in Visual mode. Press T to replace groups of eight spaces with a tab.
Edit ~/.vimrc, adding these
lines to the end of the file:
if has("autocmd")
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.sgml,*.ent,*.xsl,*.xml call Set_SGML()
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.[1-9] call ShowSpecial()
endif " has(autocmd)
function Set_Highlights()
"match ExtraWhitespace /^\s* \s*\|\s\+$/
highlight default link OverLength ErrorMsg
match OverLength /\%71v.\+/
return 0
endfunction
function ShowSpecial()
setlocal list listchars=tab:>>,trail:*,eol:$
hi def link nontext ErrorMsg
return 0
endfunction " ShowSpecial()
function Set_SGML()
setlocal number
syn match sgmlSpecial "&[^;]*;"
setlocal syntax=sgml
setlocal filetype=xml
setlocal shiftwidth=2
setlocal textwidth=70
setlocal tabstop=8
setlocal softtabstop=2
setlocal formatprg="fmt -p"
setlocal autoindent
setlocal smartindent
" Rewrap paragraphs
noremap P gqj
" Replace spaces with tabs
noremap T :s/ /\t/<CR>
call ShowSpecial()
call Set_Highlights()
return 0
endfunction " Set_SGML()All FreeBSD documents are available for download at https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/doc/
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