Re: Several Questions
On 2006-01-05 at 15:58 -0500, James wrote:
> First, email from some people appears with ^M at the end of each line.
> I assume this is some sort of DOS line-ending issue,
Shouldn't be -- email is transported with ^M in there (CRLF instead of
LF). A client _could_ be inserting a second CR ... I've not seen that
particular brokenness myself from anything except some mailing-list
managers, but have learnt to not overestimate the _average_ quality of
mail apps.
It's only some senders and it's not coming via a mailing-list?
> Third, mutt seems to be telling vim to break lines after 80 chars.
> This is very annoying because when I edit, I get paragraphs in which
> some lines are broken and others are not. I'd like my lines unbroken
> unless I hit return. The vimrc file mutt uses includes the following
> lines that might be relevant:
> set filetype=mail
> set nowrap
It's the first one. Use "locate ftplugin/mail.vim" to find the filetype
plugin; for me, it's: /usr/share/vim/vim63/ftplugin/mail.vim
There's a local override for textwidth in that file.
Don't tell it to set filetype to mail, or if you do want the other
features, then after the "set nowrap" try "setlocal tw=0"; you could
also put that in ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/mail.vim together with any other
overrides to be run after the default mail.vim settings. (Drop the
'after/' path component to get the path for stuff to run first, assuming
default vim path settings).
I recommend the ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/mail.vim so that this also applies
when editing mail files without calling from mutt; that way, you can
prepare long mails in advance. My ~/.vimrc contains:
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.msg setf mail
so that any filename ending .msg will be edited in mail mode.
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