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. -- 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
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