Very nice! See an old emacs guy can still learn a few tricks. :) On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 09:24:34AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > egm2@jps.net (Eric G . Miller) wrote: > >On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 02:54:24PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > >> Okay, I'm fairly new to vi after living in a uMacs/Emacs world for a > >> number of years... > >> > >> When using vi with mutt for mail, I have to type carriage returns > >> manually to avoid linewrap. Is there any way to teach vi to linewrap > >> at 72 columns? > > > >:set textwidth=72 > > > >> Also, I know there's a way to pass vi options from mutt > >> which would keep vi from doing this unless I was in mutt, but > >> I don't remember where that is either. > > > >1) Replace vi with vim (it's VI-iMproved !) > > > >2) Create a vimrc or whatever you want to call it, an put it in > >~/.mutt . Then in your ~/.mutt/muttrc have line like: > >set editor='vim -u $HOME/.mutt/vimrc' > > Like the man says - or else, rather than hacking your ~/.muttrc, do as I > do and take advantage of vim's ability to recognize filetypes. Put the > following in your ~/.vimrc: > > syntax on > > augroup myauto > au! > au FileType mail set textwidth=72 > augroup END > > This will work for anything vim recognizes as mail, which includes mutt > temporary files, so you don't need to do anything special to mutt to get > this to work. > > (I don't think this will work with the vim-5.3 in slink; you'll need at > least vim-5.4 to have the FileType autocommand. potato is on vim-5.5.) > > -- > Colin Watson [cjw44@cam.ac.uk] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null > -- Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com> GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others.
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