Since I’m constantly working with text reformatting it in a useful way that is quick and easy is essenttial to keep working. Previously I used to rely on my editors reformatting, but since this kept constantly screwing up especially working with Python where whitespace is important and I was looking for a better way, and discovered the nice little utility par. So far pretty much all the reformatting happend as expected, it works perfectly with nested comments and quoted email.
Adding a quick line to the vimrc file makes Vim use par for reformatting which is really useful to never really have to leave my editor.
set formatprg=par -w80q
This will make reformat with a width of 80 characters (-w) and keep quoting even if line is empty (-q).
Code from the sideline 