On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:59:04AM -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote: > I'd like to find out how to wrap long lines in e-mails that I'm replying > to. My mutt is setup to automatically wrap lines when I compose, but > I'd like to be able to also lap long lines in e-mails when I reply. > > I have googled and see that with Vim as the editor, 'gq' is likely what > I want, but reading the help on this I'm still not sure how to > invoke/use it.
Take a try with this line. First reply to this email, move the cursor to this line an press consecutively Vgq. V select the whole line while gq wraps it. > Ideally, it would be nice to have the lines in the original e-mail that > are too long to automatically be wrapped in the reply when I hit 'r'. I don't think it is hard to do this. Just tell vim to select the whole file and wrap at startup. m.
