[Gllug] tin, vi and wide messages

Kim Hawtin kim at aldigital.co.uk
Mon Nov 5 17:27:05 UTC 2001


> > Having never really bothered to learn vi before I am having problems using
> > it with tin as the editor.  I don't know how to make it force my lines to
> > be <78 chars wide.  I used to use emacs and I did it ok in that but I
> > haven't got emacs on this machine.  Can anyone tell me the configuration
> > change to vi (or is it a change to the way tin calls vi) that is required?

and throw in the Manual and the FAQ, for good measure;

http://tinfpc2.vub.ac.be/manuals/vim/index.html
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/editor-faq/vim/

yours,

kim
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