Re: wrap long lines

[Gary Johnson <garyjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2006-08-27, cga2000 <cga2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [..]
> 
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 09:35:05AM EDT, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> 
> > In that case, set wrapmargin to $COLUMNS - 80.
> 
> Hmm.. 
> 
> How do I ..
> 
> 1. access the contents of an environment variable in mutt
> 2. code a set statement that accesses a *nix env variable

    set wrapmargin=`echo $(( $COLUMNS - 80 ))`

The expression in back-tics is given to the shell for evaluation.  
This is briefly mentioned in section 3.1 of the mutt manual, "Syntax 
of Initialization Files".

Regards,
Gary

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