+-- On 29082002 16:54:29 +0000, John P Verel uttered: | | I start vim thusly: set editor ="vim +/^$ +'set nobackup' -c 'normal | o' -c startinsert" This puts me at a new line below the first non | blank line, in insert mode. If you like, simply change 'normal o' to | 'normal i' to omit the additional blank line. I use the blank line to | make it easier when I need to reformat the first paragraph. That way, | the headers don't get mangled when I execute gqip. The use of 'set | nobackup' above is obvious.
Ah yes that works quite well. Now all that's left is to get vim to sanely re-format quoted text (where the quoting text is an arbitrary N quote levels deep). :) I saw a thread somewhere about fiddling with vim's 'comments' setting, combind with gqap, but have yet to make sense of it. | Also, while we're talking editors, I use: | | set tmpdir=~/tmp | | to ensure privacy of my temp files. Otherwise, they get written to | /tmp, which is world readable. Yes, a good idea indeed. Although vim is smart enough to honor the TMPDIR environment variable (which I have set to ~/tmp as well), and so I wasn't concerned about setting it via mutt. | And,welcome to Mutt, krjw :) Thanks. The 'k' is for Keith, although many people insist my name's Kevin. hrmph. OT: I see you're an optonline user. So what do you think of Jimmy Dolan? If you're a Yanks fan you probably hate his guts. Anyway check out fuckedcompany.com and you'll see that ol' Jimmy and Cablevision aren't doing so hot. Cheers, krjw. | John
