[Gllug] tin, vi and wide messages

[Chris Ball]

On Mon, 2001-11-05 at 15:34, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> 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?

>From my .muttrc:

set editor='vim -c "set tw=72" -c "set ts=4" -c "set wrap"'

Hope this helps.  'ts' defines the tab stop length, it's 'tw' that
you're interested in.

~C.

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