Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread Biju Chacko
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:20:15AM -0700, Chris Fuchs wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:00:09PM -0500, David Champion wrote: Thanks, looks like I'll add vim to my mutt learning curve. Are you already using vim? No reason to start, just to get word wrap. par (under vi) handles this, and I'd

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Biju Chacko [mutt-users] 17/07/01 12:56 +0530: If you can easily run external programs from it, then look into 'par'. Or fmt - which, as part of the GNU textutils package you can reasonably expect to find on most unix systems. Par is much better, of course ... -suresh -- Suresh

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread David Champion
On 2001.07.17, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Biju Chacko [mutt-users] 17/07/01 12:56 +0530: If you can easily run external programs from it, then look into 'par'. Or fmt - which, as part of the GNU textutils package you can reasonably expect

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread Contagious Specialist
Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Par is much better, of course ... http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/ Oh! The wasted reformatting keystrokes! However have I survived this long without it? -- MEM set FLOW sum REF LINK LINK SUM MEM MEM LINK TRY sum check LINK loop sum check FLOW-ON

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread Tony Godshall
Par is much better, of course ... http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/ apt-get --simulate install par apt-get install par

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Tony Godshall [mutt-users] 17/07/01 15:14 -0700: Par is much better, of course ... http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/ apt-get --simulate install par apt-get install par cd /usr/ports/textproc/par make install clean HTH HAND --suresh -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus

reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-16 Thread Chris Fuchs
Hello, I currently get mail from a MUA that simply chops all lines beyond 80 characters to the nearest word. For unquoted text that's okay, but for quoted lines you get something like this: extreme silliness that should not be dealt this way but is for whatever reason. On

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-16 Thread Sam Roberts
Quoting Chris Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED], who wrote: I currently get mail from a MUA that simply chops all lines beyond 80 characters to the nearest word. For unquoted text that's okay, I'm curious, what's the MUA? Sam -- Sam Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-16 Thread Chris Fuchs
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:06:37PM -0400, Sam Roberts wrote: Quoting Chris Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED], who wrote: I currently get mail from a MUA that simply chops all lines beyond 80 characters to the nearest word. For unquoted text that's okay, I'm curious, what's the MUA? MS Exchange does

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-16 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Chris Fuchs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Does anyone else get mail thus mutilated and how do you handle it? Use this in your .muttrc: set editor=vim -c 'set tw=72 comments=nb:' Then, when you'd like to reformat text, highlight it in visual mode and hit 'gq' and it should wrap

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-16 Thread Chris Fuchs
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:39:15PM -0400, Justin R. Miller wrote: Thus spake Chris Fuchs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Does anyone else get mail thus mutilated and how do you handle it? Use this in your .muttrc: set editor=vim -c 'set tw=72 comments=nb:' Then, when you'd like to reformat

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-16 Thread David Champion
On 2001.07.16, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then, when you'd like to reformat text, highlight it in visual mode and hit 'gq' and it should wrap nicely. That's what I do, anyway... Thanks, looks like I'll add vim to my mutt learning curve. Are you

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-16 Thread Chris Fuchs
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:00:09PM -0500, David Champion wrote: Thanks, looks like I'll add vim to my mutt learning curve. Are you already using vim? No reason to start, just to get word wrap. par (under vi) handles this, and I'd be shocked -- shocked, I tell you -- if emacs does not.

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-16 Thread Rich Lafferty
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:00:09PM -0500, David Champion ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 2001.07.16, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then, when you'd like to reformat text, highlight it in visual mode and hit 'gq' and it should wrap nicely. That's what I

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Sam Roberts« am 2001-07-16 um 13:06:37 -0400 : Quoting Chris Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED], who wrote: I currently get mail from a MUA that simply chops all lines beyond 80 characters to the nearest word. For unquoted text that's okay, I'm curious, what's the MUA? Mail User Agent -

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-16 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Alexander Skwar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm curious, what's the MUA? Mail User Agent - mutt in this case I think he means what's the one that's mangling the quotes... -Justin -- [ ] -- Justin R. Miller - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [ ] [ ] -- see full headers for PGP key information