Hi Dave Swegen; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > I have a couple of questions regarding the configuration of mutt and vim: > > 1) How do I go about assigning different settings for vim, ie having > textwidth when composing mail with mutt, but not when coding? > > 2) Where do I change the syntax-highlighting colours in such a way that they > won't be affected by the next upgrade to vim (the default colours for some > apps is a bit dodgy - dark blue on black for instance)? > > Cheers > Dave
I have picked up someplace (may even be in vim docs) the following settings which I placed in my ~/.gvimrc file: augroup Messages " Mail & news autocmd! autocmd BufRead mutt*[0-9],snd.*,.letter,.followup,.article,.article[0-9] set textwidth=76 formatoptions=2tcq comments=n:>,n::,n:#,n:%,n:\| digraph normal ,kqs For the above to work I have vim-rt package installed and my ~/.vimrc file allows for autocmd feature. I am afraid I can't help you with the 2nd question, maybe ~/.vimrc is the place to put your defaults? HTH, damir
