On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:16 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > 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. > > 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'"
Okay, I got it. Thank you Kyle and Christian. :-) ~dm -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
