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Re: sudden vim problem in mutt



Nathan,
I tried your suggestion, but that doesn't seem to change the behaviour.  The 
lines still don't wrap (I had to hit a Return to get the above line to
break).  
I am using Mutt 1.5.4-1 and vim 6.1-320+1.
Thanks,
Ric

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:03:30PM -0500, Nathan Poznick wrote:
> Thus spake Ric Otte:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've been using mutt with vim for a couple of years with no problem.
> > But recently I've noticed that when I reply and begin inserting text (on
> > the same line as, and right before the original message), the line does
> > not wrap when I get to 77 spaces (what I have set in .vimrc).  What
> > happens is that the text just continues on the next line, and I end up
> > with a very long line, unless I hit Enter (it doesn't matter if I insert
> > spaces in the text).  Strangely enough, this does not happen if I am
> > simply using vim or gvim outside of mutt.  I can even write an email
> > message to a file, and have the lines wrap when editing with vim, but it
> > won't do it when vim is called from mutt.  Even more strange, sometimes
> > vim will begin wrapping the lines later in the message, but I am not
> > sure how to reproduce this.  I do not believe I've changed my .muttrc
> > settings, but I might have changed something when pasting in quotations
> > or adding vimspell to .vim/plugins.  Unfortunately I can't remember what
> > I have done, if anything.   Any suggestions would be appreciated.  
> 
> Try using something like this in your .muttrc :
> 
> set editor="vim -c 'set notitle ft=mail tw=72 expandtab noautoindent'"
> 
> -- 
> Nathan Poznick <poznick@conwaycorp.net>
> 
> "This is the part where the Zagnut is fertilized by the salted nut
> roll..." -Joel. #413
> 




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