* Philipp ??berbacher <hollun...@lavabit.com> [2011-06-13 11:27:57 +0200]:
> Excerpts from Davide Baldini's message of 2011-06-13 04:28:18 +0200: > > What software do you use for mail/news? > > I see all your messages are proudly well formatted and perfectly fit in > > pages of 80 columns, while I have to push return each line. If i forget, > > lines gets splitted in my window but then when i send it out i > > see the big mistake... > > > > is there any margins setting? I use icedove (thunderbird 3.0.11) > > I use a CLI mailer (sup) and vim for text editing, so in my case it's > vim that does the line wrapping. If memory serves vim is told that what > it edits is a mail and behaves accordingly, but there certainly are > manual settings for this stuff too. I'm a mutt user and vim is my editor of choice, if that's the route you would like to go then the following will make your life somewhat easier. ch...@stewie.xaerolimit.net:~$ cat .vim/after/ftplugin/mail.vim syntax on setlocal wrap setlocal textwidth=72 " do text=flowed wrapping setlocal formatoptions+=wr setlocal formatoptions-=l " don't autoindent or smartindent, as that just adds weird spaces into the " middle of flowed text paragraphs setlocal noautoindent nosmartindent setlocal nopaste ch...@stewie.xaerolimit.net:~$ This is what vim reads when I reply to and/or compose mail to some one. If you really want to jump into mutt, I would suggest subscribing to the mutt-users mailing list as well and I can share my mutt configuration (as can others) to help you along. -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? >s http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ > GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110613135008.ga17...@gmail.com