Re: How to avoid and handle looong lines

2002-02-28 Thread Wolfgang Kaufmann
* Thus spake Will Yardley [26-02-02^04:46]: Hallo, > tell him to wrap his lines in his editor. how to do this will vary > depending on the editor he's using. if he's using vi (probably nvi in > debian), setting wm=8 should work. using vim, set tw=74. emacs i'm not > sure, but i doubt it's that

Re: How to avoid and handle looong lines

2002-02-27 Thread David Champion
On 2002.02.27, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "parv" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > fmt is very inadequate, compared to 'gq', when it comes to wrapping > of quoted lines. just try it, you will see. Yes, but to get "gq", I have to use vim. That's even worse. I recommend par if you feel that fmt

Re: How to avoid and handle looong lines

2002-02-27 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Charles Jie thusly... > > And I found some differences between fmt and vim's gq: > > . gq keeps the 1st line's indent and re-fill all the following, while > fmt keeps the first two lines' indent and re-fill from the 2nd line > . fmt has it's own width (75)

Re: How to avoid and handle looong lines

2002-02-27 Thread Charles Jie
Hi, It's my first time to try fmt. And I found some differences between fmt and vim's gq: . gq keeps the 1st line's indent and re-fill all the following, while fmt keeps the first two lines' indent and re-fill from the 2nd line . fmt has it's own width (75) . fmt has a couple of options if you

Re: How to avoid and handle looong lines

2002-02-26 Thread Joel Hammer
I never heard of gq before. On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 11:02:27PM -0500, parv wrote: > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > wrote Joel Hammer thusly... > > > > I don't have a mutt solution. You can just hit the reply button > > and get the letter in vim. Then, in the command mode, you can > > reformat

Re: How to avoid and handle looong lines

2002-02-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 25/02/02 Will Yardley did speaketh: > tell him to wrap his lines in his editor. how to do this will vary > depending on the editor he's using. if he's using vi (probably nvi in > debian), setting wm=8 should work. using vim, set tw=74. emacs i'm not > sure, but i doubt it's that hard. In Emac

Re: How to avoid and handle looong lines

2002-02-25 Thread Joel Hammer
I don't have a mutt solution. You can just hit the reply button and get the letter in vim. Then, in the command mode, you can reformat it easily with: !}fmt You can map this sequence to a key. I use g. This is very convenient. Joel On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 06:50:04PM -0900, Tim Johnson wrote: > He

Re: How to avoid and handle looong lines

2002-02-25 Thread Will Yardley
Tim Johnson wrote: > I use Mutt 1.3.27i on RH Linux 7.2 > I correspond with someone who uses Mutt/1.2.5i on Debian (???) > When I get email from him, his lines are very long and mutt > has to wrap them. tell him to wrap his lines in his editor. how to do this will vary depending on the

How to avoid and handle looong lines

2002-02-25 Thread Tim Johnson
Hello: I use Mutt 1.3.27i on RH Linux 7.2 I correspond with someone who uses Mutt/1.2.5i on Debian (???) When I get email from him, his lines are very long and mutt has to wrap them. It appears as if carriage returns aren't being inserted until a new paragraph is created. When I r