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Re: Word-wrapping text editor



On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:06:58PM -0400 or thereabouts, dman wrote:
> 
> Ditto for vim.
> 
> See ":help textwidth" and ":help formatoptions" for more details.  For
> writing mails (such as this) I use ":set tw=70 fo=tcq".  (BTW this can
> be added to the .vimrc and executed automatically or it can be typed
> as shown.)
> 
i'm curious.  why is it that the textwidth has to be set to either 70 or 72
when the console can display 80?  my tw=79 how is my message appearing?

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"GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible
to accomplish complex actions."   --Doug Gwyn  (22/Jun/91 in comp.unix.wizards)

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