vim a great editor (Was: Re: character limit)

2001-01-29 Thread Jan Johansson
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 ... As I

Re: character limit

2001-01-29 Thread Tom Nott
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 reformat

Re: character limit

2001-01-29 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
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 - and

Re: character limit

2001-01-29 Thread Akkana
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

Re: vim a great editor (Was: Re: character limit)

2001-01-29 Thread ed
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

Re: vim a great editor (Was: Re: character limit)

2001-01-29 Thread Gary Johnson
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

Re: character limit

2001-01-28 Thread Daniel Eisenbud
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's in

Re: character limit

2001-01-28 Thread ed
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 see RFC

Re: character limit

2001-01-28 Thread Ken Weingold
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 wrapping limits

Re: character limit

2001-01-28 Thread Tabor J. Wells
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 you point me to

Re: character limit

2001-01-28 Thread Rich Lafferty
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 return.

Re: character limit

2001-01-28 Thread oldschool
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 the

Re: character limit

2001-01-28 Thread Jens Paulus
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