On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 02:54:24PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > Okay, I'm fairly new to vi after living in a uMacs/Emacs world for a > number of years... > > When using vi with mutt for mail, I have to type carriage returns > manually to avoid linewrap. Is there any way to teach vi to linewrap > at 72 columns?
:set textwidth=72 > > Also, I know there's a way to pass vi options from mutt > which would keep vi from doing this unless I was in mutt, but > I don't remember where that is either. > 1) Replace vi with vim (it's VI-iMproved !) 2) Create a vimrc or whatever you want to call it, an put it in ~/.mutt . Then in your ~/.mutt/muttrc have line like: set editor='vim -u $HOME/.mutt/vimrc' Since we're on the subject, how do you do a :set tw=80 by default in elvis? puting set tw=80 in the $HOME/.exrc file doesn't seem to do anything helpful. from da Bobstopper
