* Ed Blackman <[email protected]> [2011-06-05 18:27:15 -0400]:

> That works OK for a small number of settings, but can become hard to 
> manage.  If vim filetype detection is enabled and working properly 
> (entering ":set filetype" in command mode in vim returns 
> "filetype=mail"), you can create $HOME/.vim/after/ftplugin/mail.vim and 
> enter mail-specific settings there. For instance, mine starts out like:
> 
> syntax on
> setlocal wrap
> setlocal textwidth=72
> " do text=flowed wrapping
> setlocal formatoptions+=w
> " don't autoindent or smartindent, as that just adds weird spaces into the
> " middle of flowed text paragraphs
> setlocal noautoindent nosmartindent
> 
> As you can see, you can take as much space as you want to make things 
> easy for your future self to understand why you're selecting certain 
> settings.

That's a great tip, and vim automatically picked the change up, I didn't 
have to do anything, (except fix some paste errors) except, vim isn't 
obeying tw=72, I'm still having to trim my mail to ~72 characters.

-- 
> A: Yes.
> >Q: Are you sure?
> >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
> >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?

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