Re: mutt and vim

[Gary Johnson <garyjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2004-03-19, Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 the mental interface of
> Wilkinson, Alex told:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > My default editor when using Mutt 1.5.6i is vim.
> > 
> > Question: Is it possible to configure vim to be only 80 characters
> >           wide *only* when mutt exec's it ?
> > 
> In your vimrc:
> 
> if has("autocmd")
>    au FileType mail set tw=68
>    au FileType mail set expandtab
>    au FileType mail set tabstop=3 # or whatever you want
> endif

Alternatively, you can get the same results by putting the lines

    setlocal tw=68
    setlocal expandtab
    setlocal tabstop=3 # or whatever you want

in a file named ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/mail.vim which will be sourced
automatically when vim detects that the filetype is 'mail'.

Note that I changed 'set' to 'setlocal' so that those settings will
apply only to the vim buffer containing the mail message.

HTH,
Gary

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