From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 29 17: 9:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail23.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail23.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 805F337B405 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:09:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.lakwod3.co.home.com ([24.6.228.202]) by femail23.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20011130010901.YHHB29441.femail23.sdc1.sfba.home.com@localhost.lakwod3.co.home.com> for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:09:01 -0800 In-reply-to: <20011129132041.A24123@pr0n.kutulu.org>; from kutulu@kutulu.org on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 01:20:41PM -0500 Subject: Re: Email Etiquette on this list Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit References: <200111281441.AA430047422@cshore.com> <15365.16317.286173.652889@guru.mired.org> <20011129110953.A1059@raggedclown.net> <20011129132041.A24123@pr0n.kutulu.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Sean LeBlanc X-mda: Mail::Internet Mail::Sendmail Sendmail +mmhack 1.1 on Linux Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-version: 1.0 User-agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Content-disposition: inline Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:15:26 -0700 Message-id: <20011129181525.A53614@hostwiththemost> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11-29 13:20, Kutulu wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 11:09:53AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 01:49:17PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > > > > Ack. Please teach your mail reader to wrap lines at a reasonable > > > length. Under 100 would be nice. Under 80 would be even nicer. > > > > > And < 72 would be perfect :) Some people have poor eyesight and > > need to use a larger type font. > > While we're on this topic... > > I'm using mutt, with pico as my visual editor. It wraps lines for me visually when I enter a mail, but at the 132 column > limit I have set on screen. I get the impression from reading my own mails back that mutt is wrapping the lines somewhat > oddly. They don't usually come out as one long line, but it appears to wrap twice (I get alternating long/short lines). > Anyone know what I can do to avoid this problem? My solution has been to run a Outlook Express to compose mail, but that's > pretty icky. Use Vim with Mutt. Here's the relevant info in .muttrc: set editor="vim -c 'au BufNewFile,BufRead /tmp/mutt* set ai et list set tw=72'" I also have this in my .vimrc: set textwidth=76 I'm not sure which one takes precedence, but it works to my satisfaction. Vim will wrap as you are typing, but if you go back and are inserting/deleting and that gets hosed up, there is also a cool feature in Vim to do correction of that: gqap. It will correct a whole paragraph, there are others of this variety to do cosmetic stuff. -- Sean LeBlanc:seanleblanc@home.com Yahoo:seanleblancathome ICQ:138565743 MSN:seanleblancathome AIM:sleblancathome Everything I am today I owe to people, whom it is now to late to punish. Management QOTD:This is like the first lap of a four-lap race. We all have to put our shoulders to the wheel and lay out in broad strokes the waterfall model. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message