Re: vi wrap=?

Quoth Patrick, Doesn't work in mutt though. I guess that mutt is still using nvi so better read man mutt on how to change this. You should be able to find an example .vimrc in: -rw-r--r--1 root root 1812 Sep 15 1998 /usr/share/doc/vim/examples/mail Which you can whack in

Re: vi wrap=?

Patrick wrote: Hi all, Is there a file I can set margins to wrap at 65 characters for all vi sessions, including those in mutt? .exrc .virc .vimrc .elvisrc .foorc - depending on the variant of vi you're using. beware, usually the margin is counted from the right side, which means that on

Re: vi wrap=?

Martin Schulze said: beware, usually the margin is counted from the right side, which means that on a text console with 132 colums the calculation is different from an xterm with 80 columns... ...so you should use the textwidth setting instead if you want the number of columns to be

Re: vi wrap=?

Hi, Discovered that nvi is pretty basic and installed vim. Created a .vimrc and allworks well when I edit files. Doesn't work in mutt though. I guess that mutt is still using nvi so better read man mutt on how to change this. Thanks for the advice. Patrick On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at

Re: vi wrap=?

Patrick wrote: Hi, Discovered that nvi is pretty basic and installed vim. Created a .vimrc and allworks well when I edit files. Doesn't work in mutt though. I guess that mutt is still using nvi so better read man mutt on how to change this. set editor=vim in .muttrc or remove nvi, it

Re: vi wrap=?

On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 05:38:57PM +, Patrick wrote: Hi, Discovered that nvi is pretty basic and installed vim. Created a .vimrc and allworks well when I edit files. Doesn't work in mutt though. I guess that mutt is still using nvi so better read man mutt on how to change this.

Re: vi wrap=?

Thanks for the tip but too late as I've installed vim. It seems just like nvi so much so that I think all versions of vi are the same to someone like me who just edits config files and emails. Best regards, Patrick -- Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggy until you can find a rock.

vi wrap=?

Hi all, Is there a file I can set margins to wrap at 65 characters for all vi sessions, including those in mutt? Thanks in advance. Patrick PS - many thanks for the printing suggestions. magicfilter was the one.