wrap text for both mail and programming differently - Mutt

Hi Bart,

I tried to use autocmd

i.e.
augroup mails
autocmd!
autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead <mail> set noautoindent
augroup end


but for some reason it doesn't do the trick.


Bart Vandewoestyne <MyFirstName.MyLastName@telenet.be> wrote:
> I'm using vim 6.3.71 for both mail (with Mutt) and programming. Now
> because I've found that RFC1855 recommends lines no longer than 65
> columns for mail, I would like to stick to that rule in my mails.
>
> However, for programming, I would like to allow my lines to be say 80
> columns or so.
>
> If I use :set textwidth=65 in vim, then this will also apply when I use
> it for programming.
>
> So therefore my question:
>
> * Is it possible to set a mutt-specific option so that even when you use it
> together with vim, you can set the maximum allowed number of columns
> for the text of your mails? Or will I have to make my .vimrc
> differentiate between it being used as `stand-alone vim' or `vim for mail'?
>
> Regards,
> Bart
>

Bart Vandewoestyne <MyFirstName.MyLastName@telenet.be>:
> I'm using vim 6.3.71 for both mail (with Mutt) and
> programming. Now because I've found that RFC1855 recommends
> lines no longer than 65 columns for mail, I would like to
> stick to that rule in my mails.
>
> However, for programming, I would like to allow my lines to be
> say 80 columns or so.

,----[ ~/.vimrc ]
| autocmd BufRead mutt-* source $HOME/etc/vim/modes/mail.vim
`----

,----[ $HOME/etc/vim/modes/mail.vim ]
| [...]
| set textwidth=64
`----

Hendrik

* Bart Vandewoestyne <MyFirstName.MyLastName@telenet.be>:
> Is it possible to set a mutt-specific option so that even when
> you use it together with vim, you can set the maximum allowed
> number of columns for the text of your mails? Or will I have
> to make my .vimrc differentiate between it being used as
> `stand-alone vim' or `vim for mail'?

I see two choices here. You can tell vim to use a textwidth of
65 when it's called by Mutt to edit a message, or you can tell
Vim switch to textwidth 65 when it knows it's editing a mail
file.

For the former, you want something like this in your muttrc:

set editor="vim '+set tw=65'"

For the latter, add this to your vimrc:

au FileType mail set tw=65

Setting this in your vimrc is better, because it will work for
most mail / news programs - mutt, slrn, elm, pine...

--
Andrew Preater

On 2005-08-17, Andrew Preater <andrew.preater@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> For the latter, add this to your vimrc:
>
> au FileType mail set tw=65
>
> Setting this in your vimrc is better, because it will work for
> most mail / news programs - mutt, slrn, elm, pine...

Yes. Thanks. This is probably the best solution.

I've added

set textwidth=80
autocmd FileType mail set tw=65

and this appears to do exactly what I want, even for news with
slrn.

Regards,
Bart

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