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Date:      Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:15:26 -0700
From:      Sean LeBlanc <seanleblanc@home.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Email Etiquette on this list
Message-ID:  <20011129181525.A53614@hostwiththemost>
In-Reply-To: <20011129132041.A24123@pr0n.kutulu.org>; from kutulu@kutulu.org on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 01:20:41PM -0500
References:  <200111281441.AA430047422@cshore.com> <15365.16317.286173.652889@guru.mired.org> <20011129110953.A1059@raggedclown.net> <20011129132041.A24123@pr0n.kutulu.org>

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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.

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