Hi Kyle! On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Wednesday, March 12 at 10:06 PM, quoth Dilip M: > > But still it is not automatic. I mean, when I reply to emails, I always to > > visual selection and press q (I have alised it as 'q gq}'. > > That's not what he meant by "automatic" - what he meant was that vim > should know that the filetype (ft) is "mail" without you having to > specify it.
Right. That's what I meant. Sorry for the confusion. > BUT, if it helps, you *can* have vim automatically keep your lines to > within 72 characters as you type. Add "a" to your fo, like so: > > set editor="vim -c 'set fo=tcrqa ft=mail ff=unix tw=74'" By the way, instead of specifying a lengthy set editor option in your muttrc, you can also write your mail settings in a separate file and let vim source it, whenever it detects the filetype mail. Create a file called mail.vim below ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/ (create missing directories) and insert: ,---- | setl fo+=a tw=74 ff=unix `---- And whenever vim reads a file of filetype mail, it will also source the corresponding file in your ftplugin directory (If you have enabled filetype specific settings with :filetype plugin on anywhere in your .vimrc). For reference see :h after-directory :h ftplugin-overrule :h filetype (By the way, I just tried setl fo+=a, but I did not like it, cause it keeps on joining files that I want to keep separate) regards, Christian -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 88. Every single time you press the 'Get mail' button...it does get new mail.
