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Subject: Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi
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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

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