The post mentions getting par[1] via aptitude. Good news for Mac users: it's also available via Homebrew: brew install par. (It should install easily on pretty

The post mentions getting par[1] via aptitude. Good news for Mac users: it's also available via Homebrew: brew install par. (It should install easily on pretty much any modern Unix-like system.) Some of the commenters say in effect: Vim can reformat text already. That's true, but my understanding is that par can do it far better (and more flexibly) than Vim's built-in formatter[2][3]. [1] http://www.nicemice.net/par/ http://www.nicemice.net/par/ (Software's own site; download source here.) [2] http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Par_text_reformatter http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Par_text_reformatter [3] http://jmcpherson.org/par.html http://jmcpherson.org/par.html