On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Christian Brabandt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Trey! > > On Mo, 11 Jun 2012, Trey Sizemore wrote: > >> This was previously working well, but is no longer. I use vim (v7.3) >> on my Mac and as my editor on mutt. >> >> Now when I use 'gqG' or 'gq}' when replying to a message in mutt, it >> no longer respects the reply '>' characters and wraps everything in >> one big glob when I'm just trying to wrap excessively long lines. > > please show us the output of :verbose :set fo? ft? > > The 'fo' option should include the 'c' and also the 'q' flag. See > :h fo-table for the description of each flag. > > The simplest solution should be to make sure your .vimrc contains a line > like: > filetype plugin on > > and then create a file like ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/mail.vim (create > directories that don't exist yet) and add the line: > setlocal fo+=tcq > > to it. That should work. > > > regards, > Christian
Here is the output of :version :version VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Jun 24 2011 20:00:09) Compiled by [email protected] Normal version without GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): -arabic +autocmd -balloon_eval -browse +builtin_terms +byte_offset +cindent -clientserver -clipboard +cmdline_compl +cmdline_hist +cmdline_info +comments -conceal +cryptv +cscope +cursorbind +cursorshape +dialog_con +diff +digraphs -dnd -ebcdic -emacs_tags +eval +ex_extra +extra_search -farsi +file_in_path +find_in_path +float +folding -footer +fork() -gettext -hangul_input +iconv +insert_expand +jumplist -keymap -langmap +libcall +linebreak +lispindent +listcmds +localmap -lua +menu +mksession +modify_fname +mouse -mouseshape -mouse_dec -mouse_gpm -mouse_jsbterm -mouse_netterm -mouse_sysmouse +mouse_xterm +multi_byte +multi_lang -mzscheme +netbeans_intg -osfiletype +path_extra -perl +persistent_undo +postscript +printer -profile -python -python3 +quickfix +reltime -rightleft -ruby +scrollbind +signs +smartindent -sniff +startuptime +statusline -sun_workshop +syntax +tag_binary +tag_old_static -tag_any_white -tcl +terminfo +termresponse +textobjects +title -toolbar +user_commands +vertsplit +virtualedit +visual +visualextra +viminfo +vreplace +wildignore +wildmenu +windows +writebackup -X11 -xfontset -xim -xsmp -xterm_clipboard -xterm_save system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc" user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc" user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc" fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/vim" Compilation: gcc -c -I. -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0 -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe Linking: gcc -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -o vim -lncurses And :verbose :set fo? ft? results in: formatoptions=tcq Last set from ~/.vimrc filetype= As an example, if i take the following snippet from a mail with a long line in it: > I have googled and see that with Vim as the editor, 'gq' is likely what > I want, but reading the help on this I'm still not sure how to > invoke/use it. Take a try with this line. First reply to this email, move the cursor to this line an press consecutively Vgq. V select the whole line while gq wraps it. > Ideally, it would be nice to have the lines in the original e-mail that > are too long to automatically be wrapped in the reply when I hit 'r'. If I then use 'Vgq' I get this: > > I have googled and see that with Vim as the editor, 'gq' is likely what > > I want, but reading the help on this I'm still not sure how to > > invoke/use it. > > Take a try with this line. First reply to this email, move the cursor to this line an press consecutively Vgq. V select the whole line while gq wraps it. > > > Ideally, it would be nice to have the lines in the original e-mail that > > are too long to automatically be wrapped in the reply when I hit 'r'. Notice how it doesn't preface the wrapped lines with > so that the e-mail response looks as it should. It *did* used to do this, but not sure what might have changed recently to cause it to stop working. Thanks for any guidance! -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
