Regardless I prefer 72 chars line width, this is more a personal choice than a forced standard, instead I suggest you to put this to your .vimrc
autocmd FileType mail set textwidth=72 Will have the same effect. Cheers, Matías Excerpts from Christer Edwards's message of Wed Feb 16 15:34:39 -0200 2011: > I've always been told that email text length should be limited to 72 > characters. I did some more research this morning in preparation for > sharing this and I find that according to RFC 2822 it should be 78 > characters. I then continue to find more and more discussion about how > it "doesn't matter" or "use whatever you want". > > In any case, below is a tiny patch to configure vim to wrap text at 72 > characters. This patch is specific to the initial file that is used at > sup-config, but the same line could be edited in your local > .sup/config.yaml. > > In any case, see the example below to configure your textwidth. > > > --- lib/sup.rb 2011-02-16 09:08:19.373333347 -0700 > +++ lib/sup.rb.new 2011-02-16 09:20:07.816666681 -0700 > @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ > :gpgkey => "" > } > }, > - :editor => ENV["EDITOR"] || "/usr/bin/vim -f -c 'setlocal spell > spelllang=en_us' -c 'set filetype=mail'", > + :editor => ENV["EDITOR"] || "/usr/bin/vim -f -c 'setlocal spell > spelllang=en_us' -c 'set filetype=mail' -c 'set textwidth=72'", > :thread_by_subject => false, > :edit_signature => false, > :ask_for_from => false, -- Matías Aguirre <matiasagui...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list sup-talk@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk