Re: Email line-length defaults to about 76; how to increase?

[Andy Mott <andy@andymott.org>]

Bud Rogers (budr@sirinet.net) wrote:
> 
> Ah, yes.  I didn't think of MUA's that call external editors.  I've used 
> kmail for the last year or so, and gnus for years before that, so I tend to 
> think of the reader and the composer as one and the same.  Are there not some 
> settings in .muttrc that are passed to vi or whoever?
> 

Having been slapped for having a too-long line-length, this was a
question I was asking myself (actually, has been for a while). I also
use mutt, and spent quite a while searching the documentation for the
variable to change it. It turns out the setting is in the editor (I
use vim) - as soon as I added 'set textwidth=70' to my .vimrc I had
the answer....

HTH

A more enlightened (and hopefully slap free)

Andy Mott