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letian_north

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Registered: 2012-11-28

Posts: 19

line_up -- refit all lines in a text file to some arbitrary width

Hi. I am working with a lot of text files on a daily basis and I prefer to have my lines be no longer than 79 characters.
Unfortunately, when you do a lot of editing it quickly becomes infeasible to keep every line fit specific width.
I have written a python script that refits lines that are too long and also can justify them afterwards.

Here are couple of examples.
Original text

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

line_up -t filename

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod
tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
consequat.

line_up -t -j filename

Lorem  ipsum  dolor  sit  amet,  consectetur  adipiscing  elit, sed do eiusmod
tempor  incididunt  ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam,
quis  nostrud  exercitation  ullamco  laboris  nisi  ut  aliquip ex ea commodo
consequat.

line_up -t -w 20 filename

Lorem ipsum dolor
sit amet,
consectetur
adipiscing elit,
sed do eiusmod
tempor incididunt
ut labore et
dolore magna
aliqua. Ut enim ad 
minim veniam, quis 
nostrud
exercitation
ullamco laboris
nisi ut aliquip ex 
ea commodo
consequat.

git: https://github.com/tastyminerals/line_up
AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/line_up