Try this:
set editor="vim -c 'set tw=72 comments=nb:>'"
-Justin
Thus spake Dirk Laurie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> J?rgen Salk skryf:
> > Dirk Laurie wrote:
> >
> > > signs to show that a line break was made by the viewer. However, when
> > printing or quoting (in a reply) these convenient line breaks are
> > > gone, and the result looks terrible. Can I persuade mutt to use the
> > viewer-formatted version instead of the original when printing or
> > > quoting?
> >
> > If you edit your mails with vim, you can easily reformat the quoted lines by
> > the "gq{motion}" command. E.g. "gqj" will format the current
> > line and places the cursor in the next line. Then proceed with the "."
> > command. Or just type "gqG" which will reformat every line until the end.
> >
> The problem is this: by the time vim gets control, the quote sign ">"
> has already been prepended to the line. I want the line-break algorithm
> to do its thing before the ">" sign gets prepended.
>
> Dirk
>
