From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 17 05:34:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D2E116A4CE for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 05:34:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mygirlfriday.info (adsl-65-64-145-209.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net [65.64.145.209]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C768C43FBD for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 05:34:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gv-list-freebsdquestions@mygirlfriday.info) Received: (qmail 47262 invoked from network); 17 Nov 2003 13:33:20 -0000 Received: from user204.net795.mo.sprint-hsd.net (HELO ?192.168.0.5?) (65.41.216.204) by mongo.mygirlfriday.info with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 17 Nov 2003 13:33:20 -0000 From: Gary To: Frederick Message-ID: <4360000.1069076094@[192.168.0.5]> In-Reply-To: <.128.250.18.41.1069023480.squirrel@www.k1x.org> References: <.128.250.18.41.1069023480.squirrel@www.k1x.org> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.0 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: Formatting an email for this list using vi X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 13:34:58 -0000 X-Original-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 07:34:54 -0600 X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 13:34:58 -0000 Hi Frederick, --On Monday, November 17, 2003 09:58:00 AM +1100 Frederick Bowes wrote: > 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? Well, I use VIM instead of VI, it is an "enhanced version" For automatic settings, set up a .vimrc file in your home dir. Add in: :set tw=74 (to set your text width) Or you can add this in manually on the VI command line after starting it. Now to refomat an email, while preserving the > on previous quoted text, type in ESC gqip -- Gary