Andy Mott wrote on Sun Jul 22, 2001 at 07:45:14PM: > 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.... You can of course set this variable in your .muttrc as well, so it is only used when vim gets called from mutt: set editor="vim -f \"set textwidth=70\"" Matth¡as -- Matthias Richter --+- stud. soz. & inf. -+-- http://www.uni-leipzig.de --> GPG Public Key: http://www.matthias-richter.de/gpg.ascii <-- · Projekt Deutscher Wortschatz: <URL:http://wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de>
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