Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:44:09 +0100 (CET) From: "Julien Gabel" <jpeg@thilelli.net> To: "mike bueide" <mbueide@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi Message-ID: <49662.194.119.92.65.1069083849.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> In-Reply-To: <20031117144422.GA94866@charter.net> References: <.128.250.18.41.1069023480.squirrel@www.k1x.org> <20031117144422.GA94866@charter.net>
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>> 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? > When you're in the editor: > > :set wm=20 > > will give 60 character wrap. (ie 80-20 = 60) (Note, I've > done this here in this message and this is the wrap I'm > getting. Don't forget to set the columns option to 80 in order to this tip to work. This option is set to 161 by default on my fresh 5.1-RELEASE installation. -- -jg.
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