> > I believe a few words in the German language (or rather Plattdeutsch)
> > are 80+ character long (I mean real words).
> For example?
And do you say these words in one breath? :)
I wonder plattdeutsch words help make better passphrases.
TomG
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On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, J Horacio MG wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 11:34:58PM -0700, rex said:
> >
> > I had someone send a message to my mailing list with a 2047+ character
> > line who complained that it was truncated. :)
>
> I believe a few words in the German language (or rather Plat
>
> Which are of really limited use...
Indeed,
using "wc" on ispell's german dictionary shows that the average amount
of characters per word is 12.29, using a self-written text i get 9.64
:-) This clearly shows that my teachers at school and university are
absolutely wrong complaining about my
On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 04:48:22PM +0200, Thomas Wolmer HG/EHS/OM/DE wrote:
> in a dictionary, you can construct silly but perfectly "legal" words
> of perverted length.
Which are of really limited use...
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Once upon a time Ralf Hildebrandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told us:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 04:08:19PM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote:
> > I believe a few words in the German language (or rather Plattdeutsch)
> > are 80+ character long (I mean real words). Wrapping just won't work in
> > this case ;)
>
On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 04:08:19PM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote:
> > I had someone send a message to my mailing list with a 2047+ character
> > line who complained that it was truncated. :)
Must have been an OutlookLuser
> I believe a few words in the German language (or rather Plattdeutsch)
> ar
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 11:34:58PM -0700, rex said:
>
> I had someone send a message to my mailing list with a 2047+ character
> line who complained that it was truncated. :)
I believe a few words in the German language (or rather Plattdeutsch)
are 80+ character long (I mean real words). Wrappi
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 10:57:30PM -0500, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
>
> 1) setting your textwidth is out of consideration for those that receive
> your mail, whereas having vim and using it to reformat mail is your concern
> when you read your mail
Maximum line width is specified in RFC1855:
http:
Clint Olsen [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> On Sep 20, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> > 80 is still considered the maximum safe width to assume for a window. But
> > since emails get indendted by reply characters like lots of >'s, you should
> > use something like 72-75 to keep it under 80 through several
On Sep 20, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
>
> 80 is still considered the maximum safe width to assume for a window. But
> since emails get indendted by reply characters like lots of >'s, you should
> use something like 72-75 to keep it under 80 through several levels of
> replies.
>
> You can do it a fe
Quoting Mikko Hänninen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) from Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 03:32:01AM
+0300:
> Nathan Cullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 20 Sep 1999:
> > What is the generally accepted message length for plain text messages? I've
> > heard several numbers (72 chars, 80, 79, etc..).
>
> 72 is th
At 03:32 AM 9/21/99 +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
>Nathan Cullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 20 Sep 1999:
>> What is the generally accepted message length for plain text messages?
I've
>> heard several numbers (72 chars, 80, 79, etc..).
>
>72 is the one I've seen most. In general, "less than
Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 20 Sep 1999:
> >:set textwidth=72
>
> Something you may want to consider is specifying this in your .muttrc
> rather than .vimrc. I like vi to have long line lengths and not wrap
> unless necessary when I'm mucking about with code files like html and php.
I
Nathan Cullen [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> What is the generally accepted message length for plain text messages? I've
> heard several numbers (72 chars, 80, 79, etc..). Also, what would be the
> entry in my .vimrc to enforce this text width?
80 is still considered the maximum safe width to ass
Nathan Cullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 20 Sep 1999:
> What is the generally accepted message length for plain text messages? I've
> heard several numbers (72 chars, 80, 79, etc..).
72 is the one I've seen most. In general, "less than 80". The
reasoning for 72, which is quite a bit les
Pete Toscano [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> hmmm, this is interesting and helpful, but i have a further question.
> how do you get vim (or is it even possible?) to "soft wrap" while
> editing and then insert characters when you exit or write? this
> would be nice in that, if you're editing a file
Chris, et al --
...and then Chris Gushue said...
% I *know* I saw how to do this recently on a mailing list but I couldn't
% find it. I need to know how to set the message width when using vim as
% my editor. I didn't see anything helpful in the vim docs for this, but
% I might have missed someth
Hi, all --
There are lots of ways to reformat paragraphs, and "gq" is a pretty
good one. The external program par, however, is the best.
:-D
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On Mon, Aug 30, 1999, Renaud Colinet wrote:
> Err, I think so. vim has a format option mapped (since versions 5. or
> so) to gq. So you just have to select the paragraph you want to format
> (that is, visualize it) and then hit 'gq'. If you have had your .vimrc
> on the web, it might have Q mapped
on Aug 30, Pete Toscano wrote:
> hmmm, this is interesting and helpful, but i have a further question.
> how do you get vim (or is it even possible?) to "soft wrap" while
> editing and then insert characters when you exit or write? this
> would be nice in that, if you're editing a file and you r
hmmm, this is interesting and helpful, but i have a further question.
how do you get vim (or is it even possible?) to "soft wrap" while
editing and then insert characters when you exit or write? this
would be nice in that, if you're editing a file and you remove a line or
two from a line, if the
I have this in my /etc/vimrc:
autocmd BufRead mutt* set textwidth=72 autoindent
Hope this is what you want...
Chris Gushue [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> I *know* I saw how to do this recently on a mailing list but I couldn't
> find it. I need to know how to set the message width when using vim a
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 03:59:15PM -0230, Chris Gushue wrote:
> I *know* I saw how to do this recently on a mailing list but I couldn't
> find it. I need to know how to set the message width when using vim as
> my editor. I didn't see anything helpful in the vim docs for this, but
> I might have m
Thus wrote Matthew Cordes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [99.08.13 18:31]:
> How might i change the width of the messages i send? By that i mean
> the number of characters per line in each/all messages.
>
> thanks
> -matt
It depends on the editor you use. I use pico, so i put this in my
~/.mutt/muttrc:
s
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 09:38:05AM -0400, Matthew Cordes wrote:
> How might i change the width of the messages i send? By that i mean
> the number of characters per line in each/all messages.
You can do that in the editor you use to edit the messages.
In emacs use Meta-X auto-fill-mode
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