Re: Using Vim with mutt

[jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl]

On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 06:39:11PM +1000, damon@empire.net.au wrote:
>  While I have found some Vim settings that wrap messages on screen, they
>  don't seem to insert the CR (or LF/CR, or LF, or whatever it is these
>  days) at the end of the line...

Here's part of my muttrc; among other things, it sets the linewidth to 76
(for text you type), allows you to reformat part of the body text to that
linewidth (using gq ; preserving quote structure) or the whole body text
(",ref", you probably need to have edit_hdrs set in mutt for it).

HTH,
Ray

"
" Mail (mutt) & News
"
" ,kqs = kill quoted signature 
"map ,kqs G?^> *-- $<CR>d/^-- $<CR>
"          goto end-of-buffer, search-backwards for a quoted sigdashes
"          line, ie "^> -- $", and delete unto end-of-paragraph:
map ,kqs G?^> *-- $<CR>d}

"    ,kpq kill SuperCite (aka PowerQuote) quote (replacing it by `>')
map ,kpq :%s/^> *[a-zA-Z]*>/> >/<C-M>

" reformat body text to current textwidth
" map ,ref 1G/^$<CR>V/^-- $<CR><Up>Q1G
map ,ref G?^-- $<CR><Up>V1G/^[ \t]*$<CR>Q1G

"   ,rot    = rot13 encode or decode visualised text
vmap ,rot :!tr A-Za-z N-ZA-Mn-za-m<CR>

" PGP sign (human readable)
vmap ,sign :!pgp -fast<CR>

"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Autocommands """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

:if !exists("home_autocommands_loaded")
:  let home_autocommands_loaded = 1
:
:  augroup Messages " Mail & news
:    autocmd!
:    autocmd BufRead mutt*[0-9],snd.*,.letter,.followup,.article,.article[0-9] set textwidth=76 formatoptions=2tcq comments=n:>,n::,n:#,n:%,n:\| digraph
:    autocmd BufRead mutt*[0-9],snd.*,.letter,.followup,.article,.article[0-9] :normal ,kqs
     " - Assume 80-column screen width (which is very common), and allow
     "   for our text to be quoted a couple of times without requiring
     "   reformatting to fit in 80-columns.
     " - Attempt to reformat quoted text in messages properly. Recognise
     "   the most common single character quote indicators `>', `:', `#', `%',
     "   `|'. The only other reasonably common quote indicator that this 
     "   doesn't deal with is the stupid ?Supercite? convention `JDOE>',
     "   which ought to be banned for waste of bandwith. 
     " - Enable backspace for digraphs
     " - Kill quoted signature
:  augroup END
:endif
-- 
Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden.


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