Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 05:18:48 -0800 From: Nocturne <dpilgrim@uswest.net> To: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Brad Benson <bradley@softhome.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: outlook mail was:(RE: Logo merchandise) Message-ID: <3704C3B8.FB562CEF@uswest.net> References: <000001be7b39$b40c2640$6400a8c0@BillyJoeBob> <370465AC.95322011@uswest.net> <19990402162222.A413@lemis.com> <37046B4D.47BC1A7E@uswest.net> <19990402163727.C413@lemis.com> <37046D68.D4E8F68C@uswest.net> <19990402165434.D413@lemis.com> <370473EC.6DFF6E3E@uswest.net> <19990402023647.H98992@001101.zer0.org>
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Gregory Sutter wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 11:38:20PM -0800, Nocturne wrote: > > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > > >I don't understand. Where's the problem with a UNIX-based mailer? > > > > The problem was that it would just let my text run long, making it > > hard to review the e-mail before sending. The screen-width problem > > didn't even exist then, everyone was using 80-column screens. > > It lets your text run long if you allow it to. When my mailer of > choice, Mutt, invokes my editor of choice, vi, to edit a message, it > uses the option "set wm=8", which sets a right-margin 8 characters from > the right-hand side of the screen. My text gets wrapped automatically > as I type. Your editor may vary. Pine uses it's own editor, pico, to compose messages. It's very primative. -- dpilgrim@uswest.net /\ / __ Our lies are merely the gryph@mindless.com / \/OC/URNE truth of another world ICQ: 29880099 Death is not a kill -9, just a DALnet: anim0s make world and shutdown -r now PGPKey available To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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