[Gllug] Mutt wrapping

Bruce Richardson brichardson at lineone.net
Mon Aug 27 23:17:41 UTC 2001


On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:24:04PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:45:44PM +0100, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> > How do you wrap text within Mutt?
> 
> You don't. You wrap text within the editor Mutt calls to write e-mail
> in. In my case, this is vim, so I have:
> 
> set editor='vim -c "set tw=72" -c "set wrap" -c "set ts=4"'

I set my mutt (and tin) editing preferences in ~/.vimrc, thus:

au BufNewFile,BufRead *.txt,mutt\-*,.article* 
        \ set textwidth=72 formatoptions=tcq

I just like to keep all my vim settings in one place.

-- 
Bruce

Bitterly it mathinketh me, that I spent mine wholle lyf in the lists
against the ignorant.  -- Roger Bacon, "Doctor Mirabilis"
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