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Re: Newbie Question: Line Wrapping



On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 01:08:14PM +0000, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 09:03:39AM -0400 or thereabouts, Ropetin Again wrote:
> > How does Mutt handle line wrapping?
> 
> It doesn't.  Your editor does.  You need to tell nano how you want it to
> wrap the lines in your file.  Presumably, there's some sort of ~/.nanorc
> functionality, or you can use mutt's editor variable.  I use vim and my
> .muttrc has:
> 
> set editor="vim +':source ~/.vim/mutt.vim' +':set textwidth=75' +':set wrap' 
> +\`awk '/^$/ {print i+2; exit} {i++}' %s\` %s"
> 
> hth.
> 
> --kurt

Genius, thank you, I knew I was missing something obvious!  I created a 
~/.nanorc file and included the line;

set fill 75

And now everything is perfect!

Ropetin Again