i really love mutt, but fellow netscape users complain that my line length is too
long. How can I make it so it wraps after 72 characters?
Thanks, Ethan
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:58:29AM -0500, Ethan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i really love mutt, but fellow netscape users complain that my line length is too
> long. How can I make it so it wraps after 72 characters?
The short answer is that this is something you should get your editor to
do fo
te:
Date sent: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 11:58:29 -0500
From: Ethan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:character limit
i really love mutt, but fellow netscape users complain that my line
length is too long. How can
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 12:37:07PM -0500, Timberwolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Really, it should be *their* problem.
Whatever the capabilities of Netscape may be, it's not their problem.
It's considered bad form to send mail that's not wrapped at 75 or so
columns. Mutt doesn't have an option
Eisenbud wrote:
Date sent: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 12:56:39 -0500
From: Daniel Eisenbud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Timberwolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Copies to: Ethan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: c
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 01:13:12PM -0500, Timberwolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Daniel:
>
> Where is the standard for line wrapping limits set? Is that in an
> RFC? If so, can you point me to the RFC that lays out the proper
> form for outbound message character wrapping.
I don't know if it
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 01:13:14PM -0500, Timberwolf wrote:
> Daniel:
>
> Where is the standard for line wrapping limits set? Is that in an
> RFC? If so, can you point me to the RFC that lays out the proper
> form for outbound message character wrapping.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - -Timberwolf
Please
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001, Tabor J. Wells wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 02:09:58PM -0500,
> Daniel Eisenbud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is thought to have said:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 01:13:12PM -0500, Timberwolf
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Daniel:
> > >
> > > Where is the standard for line
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 02:09:58PM -0500,
Daniel Eisenbud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is thought to have said:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 01:13:12PM -0500, Timberwolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> > Daniel:
> >
> > Where is the standard for line wrapping limits set? Is that in an
> > RFC? If so, can yo
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 02:31:21PM -0500, Ken Weingold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001, Tabor J. Wells wrote:
>
> > RFC 1855 (the Netiquette RFC) Section 2.1.1, contains the following:
> >
> > - Limit line length to fewer than 65 characters and end a line
> > with a carriage r
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:58:29AM -0500, Ethan wrote:
> i really love mutt, but fellow netscape users complain that my line length is too
> long. How can I make it so it wraps after 72 characters?
>
> Thanks, Ethan
>
if anyone else is interested in the answer to this, try this:
as root, add t
Yes, line wrapping is the editor's job. I suggest to use "set tw=72" or
"set textwidth=72" in the config file. "set co=72" only sets the width
of the display (number of columns), but does no real line wrapping in
the text. In Vim, you may hit "gqap" or "gqip" to format the current
paragraph (to th
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 03:41:00AM +0100, Jens Paulus wrote:
> Yes, line wrapping is the editor's job. I suggest to use "set tw=72" or
> "set textwidth=72" in the config file. "set co=72" only sets the width
> of the display (number of columns), but does no real line wrapping in
> the text. In Vim
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:58:29AM -0500, Ethan wrote:
> i really love mutt, but fellow netscape users complain that my line length is too
> long. How can I make it so it wraps after 72 characters?
Does Mutt support RFC2646 flowed text?
With Format=Flowed text, Mutt should automatically reforma
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:38:28AM +1100, Tom Nott typed:
> Does Mutt support RFC2646 flowed text?
> With Format=Flowed text, Mutt should automatically reformat the lines so
> that they are shorter than 80 chars (72 chars is suggested in the RFC)
> when the mail is sent.
A very good idea - an
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> set editor="/home/ed/bin/vitext +/^$/+1"
>
> in ~/bin/vitext:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> exec vim -u ~/.vimrc-text "$@"
I like to carry the same vimrc with me. .
Heres what I use in my autocmd block:
if has("autocmd")
autocmd FileType mail set tw=65
.
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 01:38:28AM +1100, Tom Nott typed:
> > Does Mutt support RFC2646 flowed text?
Suresh Ramasubramanian writes:
> A very good idea - and very few clients around which support it (Eudora and
> Hotmail's webmail interface are the only two in common use, IIRC).
Mozilla mail
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 12:52:29AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You could also create a simple wrapper around vim which uses a different
> init file (eg. ~/.vimrc-text) to specify these options. I use vim for
> other stuff (editing code & whatnot) and want different for the default
> ...
>
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 10:33:36AM +0100, Jan Johansson wrote:
[snip]
> As I understand it vim can detect the type of text you are
> writing (like it does for syntax highlight) and choose options
> after that.
Yes, you could -- file type detection works either by filename extension
or, if that fa
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 12:13:09PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yes, you could -- file type detection works either by filename extension
> or, if that fails, by examining the first line or the first few lines in
> the text. I use that feature for source code editing ...
...
> But that seems
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