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Date:      Mon, 17 Nov 2003 07:44:22 -0700
From:      mike bueide <mbueide@charter.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi
Message-ID:  <20031117144422.GA94866@charter.net>
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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On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:58:00AM +1100, Frederick Bowes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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?
When you're in the editor:

:set wm=20

will give 60 character wrap.  (ie 80-20 = 60) (Note, I've
done this here in this message and this is the wrap I'm
getting.



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