On Tuesday, April 12 at 10:44 AM, quoth Gary Johnson: > On 2005-04-12, Elmar Loos <elInfo@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Since I normally do not know the width of my xterm, I tried to set > > wrapmargin to a negative number in order to get a wrap after 72 columns. > > The result was quite funny ;) but not very useful. Now, I patched my > > mutt installation with the following patch: > > [...] > > > Could it be an idea to generally implement this behaviour to mutt? > > I'm not saying this isn't a good idea, but you can also achieve this > behavior without modifying mutt by using the shell: > > set wrapmargin=`echo $(( $COLUMNS - 72 ))` > > That command could be enhanced if you were concerned about COLUMNS > ever being less than 72. The other tricky bit there, that that solution doesn't handle, is what mutt should do if the terminal gets resized while mutt is running. ~Kyle -- Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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