Re: mutt and vim
* On 2004.03.18, in <20040319052355.GA19240@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
* "Alec Berryman" <alec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 03:28:45PM +1030, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
> > Question: Is it possible to configure vim to be only 80 characters
> > wide *only* when mutt exec's it ?
>
> In your .vimrc, add the line ":autocmd FileType mail :set tw=80". That
> won't edit the replyed-to or forwarded message, but it will anything you
> type. To get the replyed/forwared text to be 80, I usually combine it
> into one line and start typing afterwards - it'll even do the "> "
> formatting for you.
You might set up a wrapper for vim that runs stty to set the number of
columns to 80 before vim, and back to the default after. The textwidth
answers you've gotten should work, but I find setting tw in vi/clones
extremely irritating -- I'm much rather just have the editor think it
only had 80 columns to begin with.
Then you'd set editor=my_vim_wrapper in mutt.
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