From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 17 10:19:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A048216A4CF for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:19:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.thilelli.net (juliengabel.net1.nerim.net [62.212.119.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 464F643F93 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:19:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jpeg@thilelli.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.thilelli.net [127.0.0.1]) by bento.thilelli.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EC4C241B2; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:19:50 +0100 (CET) Received: from bento.thilelli.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bento.thilelli.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 71771-04; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:19:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from webmail.thilelli.net (localhost.thilelli.net [127.0.0.1]) by bento.thilelli.net (Postfix) with SMTP id CCA53241B0; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:19:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from 194.119.92.65 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jgabel) by webmail.thilelli.net with HTTP; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:19:49 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <36959.194.119.92.65.1069093189.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> In-Reply-To: <20031117162155.GA47312@ei.bzerk.org> References: <.128.250.18.41.1069023480.squirrel@www.k1x.org> <20031117144422.GA94866@charter.net> <49662.194.119.92.65.1069083849.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> <20031117162155.GA47312@ei.bzerk.org> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:19:49 +0100 (CET) From: "Julien Gabel" To: "Ruben de Groot" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at thilelli.net cc: mike bueide cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:19:54 -0000 >>>> 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. >> Don't forget to set the columns option to 80 in order to this >> tip to work. This option is set to 161 by default on my fresh >> 5.1-RELEASE installation. Just to correct myself : the columns option is based on the size of the window when the editor is launched. It not very efficient to do that this way. > I use ":set wraplen=72". Works regardless of column width. Yes, this is a better solution :) -- -jg.