Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:36:12 +0100 From: Sven Pfeifer <sven@yagonna.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi Message-ID: <20031117143612.GA5979@yagonna.de> In-Reply-To: <.128.250.18.41.1069023480.squirrel@www.k1x.org> References: <.128.250.18.41.1069023480.squirrel@www.k1x.org>
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Hi,
Frederick Bowes <fred@k1x.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I have just started learning to use vi, and remember someone posting
> something a while ago about how to re-format an email reply to have pro=
per
> 60 character width or something like that, does anyone remember how tha=
t
> is done?
I do something like this with the following command:
vi -c 'set tw=3D68 et' file_you_like_to_edit
It=B4s integrated into my .muttrc, so i can use vi as editor in mutt
and all lines have 68 charactes in maximum.
> Thanks,
> Fred
HTH
Sven
--=20
Why you can't find your system administrators:
There's more caffeine than blood in his veins, and he was last seen
hopping down the hall pretending he was a pogo stick.
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