Thus spake Pete Johns on Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:29:25AM +1000 or thereabouts: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-01 19:32]: > On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 19:21:52 -0400, cga2000 sent: > >I have saved the following in a file: > > > > > >> I can't give you any Mac-specific advice, since I don't use them, but > >> I can give you a general run-down. > >> > >> 1. You need to have the right locale settings. Your locale should be > >> set to something similar to this: > >> > >> $ locale > >> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > > > >[...] > > > >The above was posted on the mutt mailing list and has '> ' in col. 1-2 > >and I would have liked to get rid of these two characters. > > > Like oh so many things in Vim, there are probably countless ways > of achieving this, but the first way that came to my mind was: > > :%s/^..// > > Which replaces the start of every line and the next two > characters, whatever they may be, with nothing at all. > > Hope this helps;
exactly what I needed. Thanks. cga
