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Re: wrap long lines



On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 02:18:38PM EDT, Gary Johnson wrote:
> 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".

Good job I asked .. 

Thanks

cga