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Vim Formatprg PAR to justify comments with Date Stamp

I am using PAR paragraph reformatter. It is an incredible tool to be used with Vim. I am having a situation where, I have a comment that has date, developer initials and the comment message. I want to align (justified) it using Par, so that it maintains the indentation for date and initials. Is that possible?

Here is what I have:

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Here is what it does when I try:

set formatprg=par\ r80j

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Desired result:

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Thank you.

Solution

  • I don't recommend setting this as the standard formatting program options, unless this is your standard way of writing any text. So here is a filter version, better for single uses:

    :%!par 80p25dhj

    I'm assuming you want a 80 final width and justified text. Remove j or change 80 if needed. Also, the width of the prefix is a guess. Please check it:

    ;  2012/12/12  AB    Lorem ipsum ....
^                   ^
|-------------------| This width in the original text

    I guessed 25 but use a correct number.