On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:09:09PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
| typing a message to dman yesterday, i stumbled upon something funny. i
| have my vim set to wrap at 70 characters:
|
| set columns=80
| set nowrap
| set wrapmargin=10
| set textwidth=0
| set wrapscan
|
| (not sure which onees are relevant, and which ones i left out.)
textwidth --
Maximum width of text that is being inserted. A longer line will be
broken after white space to get this width. A zero value disables
this.
If you have 'tw' set to 0 then no wrapping will occur automatically.
In addition, the 'formatoptions' variable controls where automatic
wrapping will be done (see :help fo-table for details on the flags).
For mail messages you'll want to wrap normal text. For code I have
only comments automatically wrapped.
Also check the filetype of your message. (":set ft?") Vim is pretty
good at identifying files as type 'mail', which you can set some
autocommands for.
augroup Mail
au!
au FileType mail set tw=70 fo=tcrq2 nomodeline
au FileType mail set comments+=n:\|
" clear the old sig and go back to the beginning of the buffer
au BufRead /tmp/mutt* normal :g/^| -- $/,/^$/-1d^Mgg
augroup END
That last autocommand clears the sig out of the message I reply to
when the buffer is read. (put a literal 0x0d character in place of "^M").
Some other settings that may be relevant are
" enable the new filetype and indent plugins
filetype on
filetype plugin on
filetype indent on
| this beautifully works, this email is an example.
|
| however, when i start out a line with a variable name, like so:
|
| $HOME for instance, then vim forgets about its intentions to wrap and will
just keep going.
I don't see the problem. Did you ":set paste" prior to typing that
line? Sometimes I set 'paste' so I can paste some already-formatted
text into a buffer, and forget to unset it afterwards.
| oops. it doesn't work if the variable name is lowercase, or if there is
| no $. moreover, it's really hard to reproduce. but it happens every now
| and then.
|
| just thought i'd let you know :_)
| ii vim 6.0.093-2 Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor
:version
VIM - Vi IMproved 6.0 (2001 Sep 26, compiled Dec 12 2001 15:59:22)
Included patches: 1, 3, 2, 4-93
Compiled by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-D
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