Re: Using Mail(1)

2007-12-26 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Pieter, Pieter Verberne wrote on Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 05:09:20PM +0100: > After some years of experience with Mutt I want to try Mail > (/usr/bin/mail):-) I'm very curious about how many people are > using Mail nowadays (on this list). I'm using it mainly for two purposes: 1) Sending test mes

Re: Using Mail(1)

2007-12-26 Thread Liviu Daia
On 26 December 2007, Hannah Schroeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 09:28:33AM +0200, Liviu Daia wrote: > >On 25 December 2007, Girish Venkatachalam > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[...] > >> I just checked out the 'wl=72' stuff in vi. Works exactly like 'tw' > >> in

Re: Using Mail(1)

2007-12-26 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hi! On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 09:28:33AM +0200, Liviu Daia wrote: >On 25 December 2007, Girish Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >[...] >> I just checked out the 'wl=72' stuff in vi. Works exactly like 'tw' >> in vim. I then did an fmt in the end. The result looks much better of >> course. B

Re: Using Mail(1)

2007-12-25 Thread Liviu Daia
On 25 December 2007, Girish Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I just checked out the 'wl=72' stuff in vi. Works exactly like 'tw' > in vim. I then did an fmt in the end. The result looks much better of > course. But there is a problem. The quoting gets goofed up. One has to > do it w

Re: Using Mail(1)

2007-12-25 Thread Owain Ainsworth
On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 07:12:50PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > Perhaps I misunderstood? I want to delete everything from current line > till end of file. In vi, it corresponds to > > :,$d or: dG > > -Girish -0- -- Ah say, son, you're about as sharp as a bowlin' ball.

Re: Using Mail(1)

2007-12-25 Thread Pieter Verberne
On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 09:40:40AM -0500, William Boshuck wrote: > On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 07:12:50PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > On 12:06:02 Dec 25, Pieter Verberne wrote: > > Perhaps I misunderstood? I want to delete everything from current line > > till end of file. In vi, it correspo

Re: Using Mail(1)

2007-12-25 Thread William Boshuck
On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 07:12:50PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On 12:06:02 Dec 25, Pieter Verberne wrote: > > I just checked out the 'wl=72' stuff in vi. Works exactly like 'tw' in > vim. I then did an fmt in the end. The result looks much better > of course. But there is a problem. The

Re: Using Mail(1)

2007-12-25 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 12:06:02 Dec 25, Pieter Verberne wrote: > In Vi I set "set wl=72" (wl = wraplen). But when I remove text in the > middle of a sentence, the text won't shift. This makes the line less > than 72 characters. I think Vim does shift the sentence automaticly? No, vim does not shift either. I was unde

Re: Using Mail(1)

2007-12-25 Thread Pieter Verberne
On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 08:05:34AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On 22:15:03 Dec 24, Marc Espie wrote: > nnoremap :,$d > Setting "se textwidth=72" is the best way. No need to invoke 'fmt'. In Vi I set "set wl=72" (wl = wraplen). But when I remove text in the middle of a sentence, the text w

Re: Using Mail(1)

2007-12-24 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 22:15:03 Dec 24, Marc Espie wrote: > vim actually has an internal fmt command. > > I found about it fairly recently. All vi users use the filter command > all the time, and it usually takes us a while to adjust to vim improvements ;) I have this on my vimrc. sy on se nu se textwidth=72 nnorem

Re: Using Mail(1)

2007-12-24 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 08:36:09PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Pieter Verberne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For example: I remove the word "almost". Now the line is just 64 > > characters long so the paragraph from the word "lines" could just shove > > up. Does VI has a function for t

Re: Using Mail(1)

2007-12-24 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Pieter Verberne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example: I remove the word "almost". Now the line is just 64 > characters long so the paragraph from the word "lines" could just shove > up. Does VI has a function for this or can do it automaticly? Or are the > VI fans using FMT(1) for this? I hav