Re: Line wrapping with mutt/emacs (was Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express))
I hate replying to my own posts, but I see that it did not work. But then, I forgot to restart mutt, which wasn't very clever. Sorry to take the bandwidth, but I need to test this so I can quit annoying everyone.
* Cam Ellison (camellison@dccnet.com) wrote:
> Thank you, Richard. I don't know about the '+/^$' bit either - I cribbed my .muttrc from someone else, and dutifully copied that bit.
>
> So I have followed your advice, andmade the changes. I had not set up xemacs, and of course it has done its own thing, so we shall see the results now. I am deliberately running my lines long to see if it works.
>
> Cam
>
>
> * Richard Cobbe (cobbe@airmail.net) wrote:
> > Lo, on Thursday, May 16, Cam Ellison did write:
> >
> > > * Gary Hennigan (glhenni@sandia.gov) wrote:
> > > <snip>
> > > >
> > > > And, *please*, for the love of God and country, can you wrap your
> > > > lines at 70 characters or so?!
> > > >
> > >
> > > I would love to, but every attempt seems to go nowhere. Not everyone
> > > complains, but I see the litle red markers coming back indicating that
> > > mutt is wrapping them for me.
> > >
> > > So, here's another problem. I have this in .muttrc:
> > >
> > > set editor="emacs '+/^$' \"set textwidth=70\""
> > >
> > >
> > > (Let's not have a flamewar about emacs vs vi, please.) The
> > > information I have to date is that this should work. It obviously
> > > doesn't.
> > >
> > > What should I do differently?
> >
> > I'm not entirely sure what the '+/^$' means---is this perhaps a Mutt
> > thing?
> >
> > The `set textwidth=70' is almost certainly incorrect. In Emacs, the
> > relevant variable is fill-column, which is 70 by default. However, this
> > only applies if you manually fill each paragraph (M-q) or turn on
> > auto-fill-mode. To do the latter, add the following to your ~/.emacs
> > file:
> >
> > (add-hook 'FOO-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
> >
> > where FOO is the major mode in which you edit your mail messages. And,
> > if you're using XEmacs,
> >
> > (require 'filladapt)
> > (add-hook 'FOO-mode-hook 'turn-on-filladapt-mode)
> >
> > So, for instance, I've got
> >
> > (require 'filladapt)
> > (add-hook 'mail-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
> > (add-hook 'mail-mode-hook 'turn-on-filladapt-mode)
> >
> > You shouldn't need to do this, but while we're at it, to change a
> > variable's contents, use something like the following:
> >
> > (setq fill-column 72)
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
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