From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 2 5:19:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B92514D11 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 05:19:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpilgrim@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 23434 invoked by alias); 2 Apr 1999 13:19:30 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 23406 invoked by uid 0); 2 Apr 1999 13:19:29 -0000 Received: from fdsl89.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (216.161.80.89) by ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 2 Apr 1999 13:19:29 -0000 Message-ID: <3704C3B8.FB562CEF@uswest.net> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 05:18:48 -0800 From: Nocturne Organization: Neatly stacked heaps of digital chaos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gregory Sutter Cc: Greg Lehey , Brad Benson , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: outlook mail was:(RE: Logo merchandise) References: <000001be7b39$b40c2640$6400a8c0@BillyJoeBob> <370465AC.95322011@uswest.net> <19990402162222.A413@lemis.com> <37046B4D.47BC1A7E@uswest.net> <19990402163727.C413@lemis.com> <37046D68.D4E8F68C@uswest.net> <19990402165434.D413@lemis.com> <370473EC.6DFF6E3E@uswest.net> <19990402023647.H98992@001101.zer0.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gregory Sutter wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 11:38:20PM -0800, Nocturne wrote: > > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > > >I don't understand. Where's the problem with a UNIX-based mailer? > > > > The problem was that it would just let my text run long, making it > > hard to review the e-mail before sending. The screen-width problem > > didn't even exist then, everyone was using 80-column screens. > > It lets your text run long if you allow it to. When my mailer of > choice, Mutt, invokes my editor of choice, vi, to edit a message, it > uses the option "set wm=8", which sets a right-margin 8 characters from > the right-hand side of the screen. My text gets wrapped automatically > as I type. Your editor may vary. Pine uses it's own editor, pico, to compose messages. It's very primative. -- dpilgrim@uswest.net /\ / __ Our lies are merely the gryph@mindless.com / \/OC/URNE truth of another world ICQ: 29880099 Death is not a kill -9, just a DALnet: anim0s make world and shutdown -r now PGPKey available To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message