Re: wrapmargin is a bad way to solve `smart' wrapping

[Han Boetes <han@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Nelson <dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In the last episode (Oct 04), Han Boetes said:
> >     wrapmargin
> >
> >     Controls the margin left at the right side of the terminal when
> >     mutt's pager does smart wrapping.
> >
> > Well that's ok if you never change the size of your terminal. But I
> > do change the size of my terms occasionally. It would make much more
> > sense to me if there was a variable named:
>
> If you resize your terminal window, doesn't that also mean that you
> actually want to _use_ that extra space? I think the solution here is
> to set your terminal window's width to the size you prefer.

I think that is not a solution at all. My mutt config looks good at any
terminalsize in columns from 80 until 160 and the only thing that's
annoying is long lines that are unwrapped.



# Han