On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 01:49:43PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
| On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:34:48AM -0400, D-Man wrote:
| > On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 05:32:55PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| > | Thanks to all who replied. Your sapient advice has gotten me up and
| > | running. This reply is being composed in mutt, somehow it seems to
| > | have known to use vim as the editor and I'm not complaining.
| >
| > It is probably in your $EDITOR or $VISUAL environment variable. You
| > can specify the editor in the .muttrc like (a couple related options
| > shown too):
| >
| > set editor=vim
|
| or even
|
| set editor="vim +/^Subject: -c 'set ft=mail tw=64'"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I like doing that in my .vimrc, ex :
augroup Mail
au!
au FileType mail set tw=64
augroup END
vim knows when it is editing mail and when it isn't (you don't need to
set the filetype manually) :-).
What does the "+/^Subject:" argument do for you (I read the help part
so I know what vim does with it)? The first line of the buffer for me
(for this message) is
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 01:49:43PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
and the buffer only contains the body of the message.
Hmm, I just had an idea : maybe you have "vim-tiny" installed which
doesn't have file-type detection and syntax highlighting builtin?
-D
