[Gllug] Mutt wrapping

[Tom Gilbert]

* sean at uncertainty.org.uk (sean at uncertainty.org.uk) wrote:
> 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"'
> > 
> > .. telling vim to wrap at 72 chars automagically, and to set four spaces
> > to a tab stop. (which I think helps with a 72 char limit, and which you
> > can argue with me about if you're immensely bored ;-)
> > 
> > Hope this helps,
> 
> 
> helps me yoo ;-)
> 
> BTW is there any magic to help with sensible wrapping of deeply quoted
> mails?
> 
> this always seem to get messy :-(

For vim, "gq" in normal mode rewraps paragraphs, quotes and all.

Tom.
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