setting word/line wrap correctly with mutt and vim

2022-08-28 Thread void
Hello mutt-users, mutt is 2.2.7 (2022-08-07) with ncurses on freebsd current vim is VIM - Vi IMproved 9.0 (2022 Jun 28, compiled Aug 4 2022 02:42:28) Included patches: 1-129 Compiled by root@main-arm64-default-job-11 Huge version without GUI. I'm trying to get things so that emails compos

Re: setting word/line wrap correctly with mutt and vim

2022-08-28 Thread Zach
On 2022-08-28 7:15pm, void wrote: > What I want is, if i'm typing in a line and it goes over 72 chars, to > newline at that point intelligently. It could be that in vimrc you have filetype on filetype plugin on Which will make vim recognize that the mutt temp file you are editing is of the 'ma

Re: setting word/line wrap correctly with mutt and vim

2022-08-28 Thread void
On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 11:45:53AM -0700, Zach wrote: loads of stuff to try thank you :D I'll try that and post the results --

Is linewrap dead?

2022-08-28 Thread Tavis Ormandy
Hello, long time mutt user here - I've always hard wrapped my lines at 72 columns for as long as I can remember. The problem is popular modern mobile and web-based MUAs don't handle this and can make unexpected linewrap decisions. It's no issue when emailing UNIX nerds, but non-nerds think I'm doi

Re: Is linewrap dead?

2022-08-28 Thread John Hawkinson
I gave up on linewrapping emails I transmit several years ago for the reasons you describe, and it has been the right decision. I have not shaken the feeling that maybe I should learn how to compose format=flowed messages, but I guess it's not worth the trouble -- or at least I never managed to

Re: setting word/line wrap correctly with mutt and vim

2022-08-28 Thread void
On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 11:45:53AM -0700, Zach wrote: On 2022-08-28 7:15pm, void wrote: What I want is, if i'm typing in a line and it goes over 72 chars, to newline at that point intelligently. It could be that in vimrc you have filetype on filetype plugin on Which will make vim recognize

Re: setting word/line wrap correctly with mutt and vim

2022-08-28 Thread Kurt Hackenberg
On 2022/08/28 14:15, void wrote: I'm trying to get things so that emails composed and replied to in mutt do not have to be manually edited with hard returns each time. What I want is, if i'm typing in a line and it goes over 72 chars, to newline at that point intelligently. I've tried variat

Re: Is linewrap dead?

2022-08-28 Thread Kurt Hackenberg
On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 12:28:29AM -, Tavis Ormandy wrote: Hello, long time mutt user here - I've always hard wrapped my lines at 72 columns for as long as I can remember. The problem is popular modern mobile and web-based MUAs don't handle this and can make unexpected linewrap decisions. I