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? -- "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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