Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:34:54AM -0600, Gary typed: Hi Frederick, --On Monday, November 17, 2003 09:58:00 AM +1100 Frederick Bowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just started learning to use vi, and remember someone posting something a while ago about how to re-format an email reply to have proper 60 character width or something like that, does anyone remember how that is done? Well, I use VIM instead of VI, it is an enhanced version For automatic settings, set up a .vimrc file in your home dir. Add in: :set tw=74 (to set your text width) Or in FreeBSD's stock vi incarnation (nvi), you put the line set wraplen=72 in $HOME/.exrc Ruben Or you can add this in manually on the VI command line after starting it. Now to refomat an email, while preserving the on previous quoted text, type in ESC gqip -- Gary ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi
I use par to format/reformat my emails. = Copied from message sent on Tue Jan 27 06:26:32 2004 by Ruben de Groot Subject:Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi. On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:34:54AM -0600, Gary typed: Hi Frederick, --On Monday, November 17, 2003 09:58:00 AM +1100 Frederick Bowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just started learning to use vi, and remember someone posting something a while ago about how to re-format an email reply to have proper 60 character width or something like that, does anyone remember how that is done? Well, I use VIM instead of VI, it is an enhanced version For automatic settings, set up a .vimrc file in your home dir. Add in: :set tw=74 (to set your text width) Or in FreeBSD's stock vi incarnation (nvi), you put the line set wraplen=72 in $HOME/.exrc Ruben Or you can add this in manually on the VI command line after starting it. Now to refomat an email, while preserving the on previous quoted text, type in ESC gqip -- Gary ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Michael D HughesLoghome living is the best! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi
I use par to formatted/reformatted my emails. = Copied from message sent on Tue Jan 27 06:26:32 2004 by Ruben de Groot Subject:Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi. On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:34:54AM -0600, Gary typed: Hi Frederick, --On Monday, November 17, 2003 09:58:00 AM +1100 Frederick Bowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just started learning to use vi, and remember someone posting something a while ago about how to re-format an email reply to have proper 60 character width or something like that, does anyone remember how that is done? Well, I use VIM instead of VI, it is an enhanced version For automatic settings, set up a .vimrc file in your home dir. Add in: :set tw=74 (to set your text width) Or in FreeBSD's stock vi incarnation (nvi), you put the line set wraplen=72 in $HOME/.exrc Ruben Or you can add this in manually on the VI command line after starting it. Now to refomat an email, while preserving the on previous quoted text, type in ESC gqip -- Gary ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Michael D HughesLoghome living is the best! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi
Hi Michael, --On Tuesday, January 27, 2004 06:52:55 AM -0600 Michael D Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use par to format/reformat my emails. = Copied from message sent on Tue Jan 27 06:26:32 2004 by Ruben de Groot Subject:Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi. On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:34:54AM -0600, Gary typed: Hi Frederick, --On Monday, November 17, 2003 09:58:00 AM +1100 Frederick Bowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, I don't know what's going on here... Yesterday, I received an email that I sent to the group on 11/17/03. See above... This was shown on the list at that time, and several other comments were made. For some reason, the freebsd server decided to send it again yesterday. It also sent me a subscription acknowledgment that I sent at the same date, to another FreeBSD list. Someone needs to oil the list server .. -- Gary ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi
Hi Frederick, --On Monday, November 17, 2003 09:58:00 AM +1100 Frederick Bowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just started learning to use vi, and remember someone posting something a while ago about how to re-format an email reply to have proper 60 character width or something like that, does anyone remember how that is done? Well, I use VIM instead of VI, it is an enhanced version For automatic settings, set up a .vimrc file in your home dir. Add in: :set tw=74 (to set your text width) Or you can add this in manually on the VI command line after starting it. Now to refomat an email, while preserving the on previous quoted text, type in ESC gqip -- Gary ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi
Hi, Frederick Bowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have just started learning to use vi, and remember someone posting something a while ago about how to re-format an email reply to have proper 60 character width or something like that, does anyone remember how that is done? I do something like this with the following command: vi -c 'set tw=68 et' file_you_like_to_edit It´s integrated into my .muttrc, so i can use vi as editor in mutt and all lines have 68 charactes in maximum. Thanks, Fred HTH Sven -- Why you can't find your system administrators: There's more caffeine than blood in his veins, and he was last seen hopping down the hall pretending he was a pogo stick. --[rand. sig. #12] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:58:00AM +1100, Frederick Bowes wrote: Hi, I have just started learning to use vi, and remember someone posting something a while ago about how to re-format an email reply to have proper 60 character width or something like that, does anyone remember how that is done? When you're in the editor: :set wm=20 will give 60 character wrap. (ie 80-20 = 60) (Note, I've done this here in this message and this is the wrap I'm getting. -- mbueide (at) charter (dot) net . ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi
I have just started learning to use vi, and remember someone posting something a while ago about how to re-format an email reply to have proper 60 character width or something like that, does anyone remember how that is done? When you're in the editor: :set wm=20 will give 60 character wrap. (ie 80-20 = 60) (Note, I've done this here in this message and this is the wrap I'm getting. Don't forget to set the columns option to 80 in order to this tip to work. This option is set to 161 by default on my fresh 5.1-RELEASE installation. -- -jg. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 04:44:09PM +0100, Julien Gabel typed: I have just started learning to use vi, and remember someone posting something a while ago about how to re-format an email reply to have proper 60 character width or something like that, does anyone remember how that is done? When you're in the editor: :set wm=20 will give 60 character wrap. (ie 80-20 = 60) (Note, I've done this here in this message and this is the wrap I'm getting. Don't forget to set the columns option to 80 in order to this tip to work. This option is set to 161 by default on my fresh 5.1-RELEASE installation. I use :set wraplen=72. Works regardless of column width. Ruben -- -jg. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi
I have just started learning to use vi, and remember someone posting something a while ago about how to re-format an email reply to have proper 60 character width or something like that, does anyone remember how that is done? When you're in the editor: :set wm=20 will give 60 character wrap. (ie 80-20 = 60) (Note, I've done this here in this message and this is the wrap I'm getting. Don't forget to set the columns option to 80 in order to this tip to work. This option is set to 161 by default on my fresh 5.1-RELEASE installation. Just to correct myself : the columns option is based on the size of the window when the editor is launched. It not very efficient to do that this way. I use :set wraplen=72. Works regardless of column width. Yes, this is a better solution :) -- -jg. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
