Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:26:32 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: FreeBSD <questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Frederick <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi Message-ID: <20040127122632.GA62456@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <4360000.1069076094@[192.168.0.5]> References: <.128.250.18.41.1069023480.squirrel@www.k1x.org> <4360000.1069076094@[192.168.0.5]>
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On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:34:54AM -0600, Gary typed: > Hi Frederick, > > --On Monday, November 17, 2003 09:58:00 AM +1100 Frederick Bowes > <fred@k1x.org> wrote: > > >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? > > Well, I use VIM instead of VI, it is an "enhanced version" > > For automatic settings, set up a .vimrc file in your home dir. > > Add in: > > :set tw=74 (to set your text width) Or in FreeBSD's stock vi incarnation (nvi), you put the line set wraplen=72 in $HOME/.exrc Ruben > Or you can add this in manually on the VI command line after starting it. > > > Now to refomat an email, while preserving the > on previous quoted text, > type in ESC gqip > > -- > Gary > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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