On 14Jan2016 16:23, James <jamesze...@gmail.com> wrote:
I know this borders being a vim question, but I was hoping for some
clarification on why my emails look strange on some clients.
Sound llike you want format=flowed, of which there has been some recent
discussion. This message is so formatted. Examine it on your iPhone etc.
The essence of this format is that (a) you fold text lines somewhere suitable
for common fixed-width dumb paging of the text (i.e. <80 columns, typically 72
or so) so that non-format-flowed readers are happy and (b) you mark all lines
which are not the end of the paragraph as reflowable by leaving a trailing
space on the end (flowed-aware readers can then reflow the paragraph to fit the
display - mutt and the iPhone both do this).
I set mutt's $editor variable to my "vim-flowed" script, which invokes vim with
useful settings, specificly "set formatoptions=waqj". See:
https://bitbucket.org/cameron_simpson/css/src/tip/bin/vim-flowed
You may want to use this directly or to integrate these with your normal
options for purposes of retaining your finger feel.
As a software developer I use vim every day without issue; here are
the relevant settings that may be causing my heartache:
" autocomment, set formatoptions
"
" t = autowrap to textwidth
" c = autowrap to textwidth, add comment leader
" r = auto-comment after <enter>
" o = auto-comment with 'o' or 'O'
" q = allow formating of comments with 'gq'
" l = don't format existing lines
" n = format numbered lists
" 2 = auto-indent based on second line of paragraph
" 1 = don't break lines after a one-letter word; break before
set formatoptions=tcroqln21
set textwidth=78
Thanks for these - I'll read them and see if they can improve my crude vim
environment.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
