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Re: searching or wrapping input fields



On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:14:46AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [06-27-08 10:39]:
> > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:22:41AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > > 
> > > if your terminal program is utilizing emacs keystrokes, <meta-f> or
> > > <alt-f> will go forward one word (white space delimited) and <meta-b>
> > > or <alt-b> will go backward one word.  Maybe this will help.
> > 
> > Patrick, yes, I know about this facility. It is in section 2.2 Editing
> > Input Fields. On my system it's ESC/B and ESC/F to move backwards and
> > forwards one word respectively. This is good, but it would be better
> > to be able to view the whole list at once, or to be able to search within
> > the list.
> 
> other options, set wordwrap in your editor.  I use jed with mail-mode,
> but I know that joe also has wordwrap.  I see the entire list with
> headers enabled in my editor.  
> 
> Not on the text entry line at the bottom of the mutt screen, but after
> <enter> the To/Cc/Bcc lists are all wrapped.  I believe that this (not
> the bottom line) is controlled via .muttrc,
>   set wrapcolumn=-6

I use vi, and words do wrap in the editor, though
not in the input fields.

When I <enter> the To/Cc/Bcc long list,
it  is cut at the terminal edge, not wrapped.

The "wrapcolumn" is not recognised by my mutt:

% mutt
Error in /home/mexas/.muttrc, line 3: wrapcolumn: unknown variable
source: errors in /home/mexas/.muttrc
Press any key to continue...
%

and it doesn't appear in the manual either:

6.3. Configuration Variables

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  6.3.234. weed

  6.3.235. wrap_search
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I should probably add mutt -v:
%mutt -v
Mutt 1.4.2.3i (2007-05-26)
Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
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System: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE (i386) [using ncurses 5.6]
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
-DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL  +USE_SETGID  +USE_DOTLOCK  +DL_STANDALONE  
-USE_FCNTL  +USE_FLOCK
+USE_POP  +USE_IMAP  +USE_GSS  +USE_SSL  -USE_SASL  
+HAVE_REGCOMP  -USE_GNU_REGEX  +COMPRESSED  
+HAVE_COLOR  +HAVE_START_COLOR  +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD  +HAVE_BKGDSET  
+HAVE_CURS_SET  +HAVE_META  +HAVE_RESIZETERM  
+HAVE_PGP  -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS  -SUN_ATTACHMENT  
+ENABLE_NLS  -LOCALES_HACK  +HAVE_WC_FUNCS  +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET  
+HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR  
+HAVE_ICONV  -ICONV_NONTRANS  +HAVE_GETSID  +HAVE_GETADDRINFO  
-ISPELL
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/mail"
PKGDATADIR="/usr/local/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/usr/local/etc"
EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
-MIXMASTER
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many thanks
anton

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