Formatting an email for this list using vi
Sven Pfeifer
sven at yagonna.de
Mon Nov 17 05:34:58 PST 2003
Hi,
Frederick Bowes <fred at k1x.org> 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
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