From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 3 19:58:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1CEC14BE6 for ; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 19:58:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA20333; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 20:56:57 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd020317; Sat Apr 3 20:56:53 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA01748; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 20:56:51 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199904040356.UAA01748@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: outlook mail was:(RE: Logo merchandise) To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 03:56:51 +0000 (GMT) Cc: fullermd@futuresouth.com, tlambert@primenet.com, dpilgrim@uswest.net, bradley@softhome.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990404105501.O2142@lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Apr 4, 99 10:55:01 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >>> 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. > >> > >> :set wrapmargin=72 > > > > ITYM > > :set wraplen=72 > > (I use 73, it's prime, and therefor intrinsically better) > > JOOI, how do you reformat a paragraph with vi? !}fmt^M Will reformat from the cursor position to the end of the paragraph. If you care about quoting, write a script, or map a key, instead. Another common trick is to use abbreviation expansion in your .exrc: ab teh the ab cutsomer customer ab heirarchy hierarchy ab JOOI What the heck is this supposed to mean? Etc. See the VI FAQ for quoted text reformatting macros: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/editor-faq/vi/part2/faq.html Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message