word wrap of quotes

2011-12-12 Thread Patrick Shanahan
I know that I can set line wrapping at a particular line length or a value less that the display line length, but both of these disreguard quote indicators and make viewing/reading quotes very sloppy. Is there a method to intelligently wrap quoted material? tks, -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan

Re: word wrap of quotes

2011-12-12 Thread Michael Graham
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 17:52, Patrick Shanahan wrote: I know that I can set line wrapping at a particular line length or a value less that the display line length, but both of these disreguard quote indicators and make viewing/reading quotes very sloppy. Is there a method to

Re: word wrap of quotes

2011-12-12 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Michael Graham mich...@skky.org [12-12-11 14:28]: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 17:52, Patrick Shanahan wrote: I know that I can set line wrapping at a particular line length or a value less that the display line length, but both of these disreguard quote indicators and make viewing/reading

Re: Word Wrap

2001-05-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Mr. Wade [mutt-users] 29/05/01 23:32 -0400: I use vim also. Mine will do the word wrap, as you describe, but the adding of new quote marks... how do you accomplish that? If there's a single quotemark at the start of a long line and you wrap it, the entire paragraph is wrapped

Re: Word Wrap

2001-05-30 Thread Mr. Wade
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Mr. Wade [mutt-users] 29/05/01 23:32 -0400: I use vim also. Mine will do the word wrap, as you describe, but the adding of new quote marks... how do you accomplish that? If there's a single quotemark at the start of a long line and you wrap

Re: Word Wrap

2001-05-21 Thread darren chamberlain
Larry Hignight ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something to this effect on 05/18/2001: I'm not sure how I missed this in the Mutt manual and some online tutorials, but I have some people on another mail list complaining that my email isn't wrapping properly. I am using vim as my editor. Which needs

Re: Word Wrap

2001-05-21 Thread John P. Verel
My .vimrc has just this line for this problem: set textwidth=72 On 05/21/01, 08:04:36AM -0400, darren chamberlain wrote: Larry Hignight ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something to this effect on 05/18/2001: I'm not sure how I missed this in the Mutt manual and some online tutorials, but I have

Re: Word Wrap

2001-05-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
John P. Verel [mutt-users] Mon, May 21, 2001 at 04:22:09PM -0400: My .vimrc has just this line for this problem: set textwidth=72 I use set editor=/usr/bin/vim +':set textwidth=77' +':set wrap' +\`awk'/^$/ {print i+2; exit} {i++}' %s\` %s -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus Malletus

Re: Word Wrap

2001-05-21 Thread John P. Verel
As a variation on the vim invocation, I use this: set editor =vim +/^$ This puts me at the first blank line of the composition screen. John On 05/22/01, 07:23:43AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: I use set editor=/usr/bin/vim +':set textwidth=77' +':set wrap' +\`awk'/^$/ {print i+2;

Re: Word Wrap

2001-05-19 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:41:13PM -0400, Mr. Wade wrote: Larry Hignight wrote: I'm not sure how I missed this in the Mutt manual and some online tutorials, but I have some people on another mail list complaining that my email isn't wrapping properly. I am using vim as my editor. Which

Word Wrap

2001-05-18 Thread Larry Hignight
I'm not sure how I missed this in the Mutt manual and some online tutorials, but I have some people on another mail list complaining that my email isn't wrapping properly. I am using vim as my editor. Which needs to be configured to setup wrapping at 72? Is it in one of the vim files or the

Re: Word Wrap

2001-05-18 Thread Mr. Wade
Larry Hignight wrote: I'm not sure how I missed this in the Mutt manual and some online tutorials, but I have some people on another mail list complaining that my email isn't wrapping properly. I am using vim as my editor. Which needs to be configured to setup wrapping at 72? Is it in one

Re: Word-wrap when printing and quoting

2001-03-05 Thread David
Dirk Laurie wrote: The problem is this: by the time vim gets control, the quote sign "" has already been prepended to the line. I want the line-break algorithm to do its thing before the "" sign gets prepended. There's an example of commands to put in your vimrc file that will automatically

Re: Word-wrap when printing and quoting

2001-02-28 Thread Jürgen Salk
Dirk Laurie wrote: signs to show that a line break was made by the viewer. However, when printing or quoting (in a reply) these convenient line breaks are gone, and the result looks terrible. Can I persuade mutt to use the viewer-formatted version instead of the original when printing or

Re: Word-wrap when printing and quoting

2001-02-28 Thread Jürgen Salk
Jrgen Salk wrote: Yes, I have intentionally used overlength lines, such that you can check it out. Have fun. Ahem, this bloody damned web interface, I'm using right now, seems to have it's own idea of breaking lines. :-) Regards - Juergen. -- Sent through GMX FreeMail -

Re: Word-wrap when printing and quoting

2001-02-28 Thread Jason Helfman
how do you do this On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:02:11AM +0100, Suresh Ramasubramanian muttered: | *[Dirk Laurie on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:52:14AM +0200]: | | signs to show that a line break was made by the viewer. However, when | printing or quoting (in a reply) these convenient line

Re: Word-wrap when printing and quoting

2001-02-28 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Dirk Laurie wrote: Jrgen Salk skryf: Dirk Laurie wrote: signs to show that a line break was made by the viewer. However, when printing or quoting (in a reply) these convenient line breaks are gone, and the result looks terrible. Can I persuade mutt to use the

Re: Word-wrap when printing and quoting

2001-02-28 Thread Jürgen Salk
Dirk Laurie wrote: The problem is this: by the time vim gets control, the quote sign "" has already been prepended to the line. I want the line-break algorithm to do its thing before the "" sign gets prepended. I understand quite exactly what you want. Just try this "gqG" thing with vim

Re: Word-wrap when printing and quoting

2001-02-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:52:14AM +0200, Dirk Laurie wrote: Some of my correspondents use a mail composition system that does not break long lines into screen-width lines. I dare not complain for they will then send me HTML or Word versions. The mutt viewer handles the long lines nicely,

Re: Word-wrap when printing and quoting

2001-02-28 Thread Ken Weingold
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001, Jrgen Salk wrote: If you edit your mails with vim, you can easily reformat the quoted lines by the "gq{motion}" command. E.g. "gqj" will format the current line and places the cursor in the next line. Then proceed with the "." command. Or just type "gqG" which will

Re: Word-wrap when printing and quoting

2001-02-28 Thread David Champion
On 2001.02.28, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Dirk Laurie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is this: by the time vim gets control, the quote sign "" has already been prepended to the line. I want the line-break algorithm to do its thing before the "" sign gets prepended. The problem

Re: Word-wrap when printing and quoting

2001-02-28 Thread rex
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:49:03AM -0600, David Champion wrote: On 2001.02.28, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Dirk Laurie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is this: by the time vim gets control, the quote sign "" has already been prepended to the line. Try using "par q" to

Re: Word-wrap when printing and quoting

2001-02-28 Thread Justin R. Miller
Try this: set editor="vim -c 'set tw=72 comments=nb:'" -Justin Thus spake Dirk Laurie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): J?rgen Salk skryf: Dirk Laurie wrote: signs to show that a line break was made by the viewer. However, when printing or quoting (in a reply) these convenient line

Re: Word-wrap when printing and quoting

2001-02-28 Thread Joe Philipps
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:57:33AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jed is a very good editor that has a mail_mode that does smart formatting of quoted paragraphs. No more "" characters in the middle of lines. I've always been a big fan of GNUEmacs, and text mode has "" quoting reformatting

Word-wrap when printing and quoting

2001-02-27 Thread Dirk Laurie
Some of my correspondents use a mail composition system that does not break long lines into screen-width lines. I dare not complain for they will then send me HTML or Word versions. The mutt viewer handles the long lines nicely, breaking at word boundaries and putting in cyan plus signs to

Re: Word-wrap when printing and quoting

2001-02-27 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
*[Dirk Laurie on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:52:14AM +0200]: signs to show that a line break was made by the viewer. However, when printing or quoting (in a reply) these convenient line breaks are gone, and the result looks terrible. Can I persuade mutt to use the viewer-formatted version

Re: [jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org: word wrap]

2000-03-11 Thread Mikko Hänninen
J McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sat, 11 Mar 2000: started using xterm with a smaller font, so more words fit per line. I got complaints about my word wrap. I'm not surprised, with the line length in your emails. I have word wrap margin set to 10 in vi, but that isn't helping, i

Re: [jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org: word wrap]

2000-03-11 Thread J McKitrick
Well, here on my shell account i use the original vi. On my machine i use vim. So, which margin settings can i use? -- -jm

Re: [jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org: word wrap]

2000-03-11 Thread Matt Hortman
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 02:04:56PM +, J McKitrick wrote: Well, here on my shell account i use the original vi. On my machine i use vim. So, which margin settings can i use? -- -jm I use vim and I have to following in my .vimrc :set tw=70CR :map F10 gqap This will cause vim to insert

Re: [jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org: word wrap]

2000-03-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Matt Hortman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [000311 11:30]: :set tw=70CR :map F10 gqap This will cause vim to insert a newline (as you type) between words so that the line is not longer than 70 characters. This only applies, however, when the cursor is at the end of the line. IOW, if you stop

word wrap

2000-03-11 Thread j mckitrick
i realize this is a bit off subject because it is somewhat of an editor problem, but it applies to mutt as well. I started using xterm with a smaller font, so more words fit per line. I got complaints about my word wrap. I have word wrap margin set to 10 in vi, but that isn't helping, i

Re: [jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org: word wrap]

2000-03-11 Thread Christian R Molls
* J McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000311 18:00]: On my machine i use vim. I have this line in my .vimrc, which sets textwidth only for mail editing in mutt: au BufNewFile,BufRead /tmp/mutt* set tw=70 -- christian molls student of laws univ of cologne

Re: word wrap

2000-03-11 Thread Fairlight
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 12:30:28PM -0600, Ben Beuchler thus spoke: On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 04:50:02AM +, j mckitrick wrote: In vi: :set textwidth=74 :set wrapmargin=75 -- Fairlight- |||[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Fairlight Consulting __/\__ ||| "I'm talking for

Re: word wrap

2000-03-11 Thread Ben Beuchler
about my word wrap. I have word wrap margin set to 10 in vi, but that isn't helping, i guess. Is there a better way? -- -jm -- "There is no spoon" -- The Matrix

Re: word wrap

2000-03-11 Thread Gary Johnson
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 04:50:02AM +, j mckitrick wrote: i realize this is a bit off subject because it is somewhat of an editor problem, but it applies to mutt as well. I started using xterm with a smaller font, so more words fit per line. I got complaints about my word wrap. I have

[jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org: word wrap]

2000-03-10 Thread J McKitrick
Subject: word wrap i realize this is a bit off subject because it is somewhat of an editor problem, but it applies to mutt as well. I started using xterm with a smaller font, so more words fit per line. I got complaints about my word wrap. I have word wrap margin set to 10 in vi