Re: OT: column 72 in mutt with xterm && vim
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:16 PM, <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
> That's not what he meant by "automatic" - what he meant was that vim
> should know that the filetype (ft) is "mail" without you having to
> specify it.
>
> BUT, if it helps, you *can* have vim automatically keep your lines to
> within 72 characters as you type. Add "a" to your fo, like so:
>
> set editor="vim -c 'set fo=tcrqa ft=mail ff=unix tw=74'"
Okay, I got it. Thank you Kyle and Christian. :-)
~dm
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