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Re: editor settings

On Thursday, December 15 at 02:18 PM, quoth Jason Helfman:

Thank you. I've done something like this similarly, however this still
doesn't touch on what I am asking.

Suppose typing a new message. You have to go back and re-word a line and it
ends up being shorter then 78 characters. You then need to shift all your
lines in your paragraph/message to line up to what looks presentable to
send.

I hope this is more clear?
You're asking for auto-wrap. This is achieved by adding the character "a" to the vim formatoptions (or fo) variable. This, however, can be kinda irritating without something like restricting auto-wrap to lines that end in a space (i.e. adding "w" to formatoptions). 

You can do this like so:

   set fo+=aw
Whether you do that in mutt's editor variable, or if you do that as an autohook in your vimrc, or whatever. :) 

~Kyle
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