On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:41:13PM -0400, Mr. Wade wrote:
> Larry Hignight wrote:
> > I'm not sure how I missed this in the Mutt manual and some online
> > tutorials, but I have some people on another mail list complaining
> > that my email isn't wrapping properly. I am using vim as my
> > editor. Which needs to be configured to setup wrapping at 72? Is
> > it in one of the vim files or the .muttrc?
>
> Either, actually! Since you can specify it on the command line,
> you could use something like this in your ~/.muttrc file:
>
> set editor='vim -c "set tw=72"'
With vim, this can also be done automatically by vim itself. I have
this in my .vimrc:
" set the textwidth to 70 characters for replies (email&usenet)
au BufRead .letter,mutt*,nn.*,snd.* set tw=70
Works nicely.
Cheerio,
Thomas
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