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Subject: Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi
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>> 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
>> proper 60 character width or something like that, does anyone remember
>> how that is done?
>
> I do something like this with the following command:
>
>         vi -c 'set tw=68 et' file_you_like_to_edit

It seems that this option is specific to 'editors/vim' ?
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-jg.