Thank you, Richard. I don't know about the '+/^$' bit either - I cribbed my .muttrc from someone else, and dutifully copied that bit.
So I have followed your advice, andmade the changes. I had not set up xemacs, and of course it has done its own thing, so we shall see the results now. I am deliberately running my lines long to see if it works. Cam * Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Lo, on Thursday, May 16, Cam Ellison did write: > > > * Gary Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > <snip> > > > > > > And, *please*, for the love of God and country, can you wrap your > > > lines at 70 characters or so?! > > > > > > > I would love to, but every attempt seems to go nowhere. Not everyone > > complains, but I see the litle red markers coming back indicating that > > mutt is wrapping them for me. > > > > So, here's another problem. I have this in .muttrc: > > > > set editor="emacs '+/^$' \"set textwidth=70\"" > > > > > > (Let's not have a flamewar about emacs vs vi, please.) The > > information I have to date is that this should work. It obviously > > doesn't. > > > > What should I do differently? > > I'm not entirely sure what the '+/^$' means---is this perhaps a Mutt > thing? > > The `set textwidth=70' is almost certainly incorrect. In Emacs, the > relevant variable is fill-column, which is 70 by default. However, this > only applies if you manually fill each paragraph (M-q) or turn on > auto-fill-mode. To do the latter, add the following to your ~/.emacs > file: > > (add-hook 'FOO-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill) > > where FOO is the major mode in which you edit your mail messages. And, > if you're using XEmacs, > > (require 'filladapt) > (add-hook 'FOO-mode-hook 'turn-on-filladapt-mode) > > So, for instance, I've got > > (require 'filladapt) > (add-hook 'mail-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill) > (add-hook 'mail-mode-hook 'turn-on-filladapt-mode) > > You shouldn't need to do this, but while we're at it, to change a > variable's contents, use something like the following: > > (setq fill-column 72) > > HTH, > > Richard > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Cam Ellison Ph.D. R.Psych. From Roberts Creek on B.C.'s incomparable Sunshine Coast [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
