Re: Documentation for total beginners

2001-04-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:08:45PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > in /usr/share/vim/vim56/filetype.vim i found the line > au > BufNewFile,BufReadsnd.\d\+,.letter,.letter.\d\+,.followup,.article,.article.\d\+,pico.\d\+,mutt-*-\d\+,ae\d\+.txt > set ft=mail > > the part that works for new mutt email

Re: Documentation for total beginners

2001-04-25 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:45:00PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Matthew Dalton wrote: > > If you use vim with mutt, but also use it for other things and you don't > > want it to wrap to 72 characters for those other things, put something > > like this in your .muttrc > > > > set editor = "vim -c 's

Re: Documentation for total beginners

2001-04-25 Thread Joey Hess
Matthew Dalton wrote: > If you use vim with mutt, but also use it for other things and you don't > want it to wrap to 72 characters for those other things, put something > like this in your .muttrc > > set editor = "vim -c 'set tw=72'" A cleaner method is this, in your .vimrc: autocmd FileType

Re: Documentation for total beginners

2001-04-24 Thread will trillich
essage - > From: "-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 7:26 PM > Subject: Documentation for total beginners > > I have a few prospects that I'm trying to talk into doing > > Linux, Debian in particular. The problem is they ha

Re: Documentation for total beginners

2001-04-18 Thread Jason Pepas
on my website http://jason.pepas.com/linux/ jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 7:26 PM Subject: Documentation for total beginners > I have a few prospects that I'm trying to talk into

Re: Documentation for total beginners

2001-04-18 Thread Matthew Dalton
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > > I don't use Mutt all the time, but you can set it to 72 by > typing > > :set columns=72 > > If you're using a vi-type editor. You can tell mutt what editor > to use by setting that up in a local .muttrc - and then set > up your vi clone to default to 72 columns

Re: Documentation for total beginners

2001-04-18 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Rob Warner wrote: > I take it you missed the flap last week or so about newbie documentation :) Or he's very brave... :) Actually, he was quite polite and undemanding... > I'll give you a perspective of a (self-proclaimed) Windows stud > transitioning to Linux. It is very,

Re: Documentation for total beginners

2001-04-18 Thread Rob Warner
I take it you missed the flap last week or so about newbie documentation :) I'll give you a perspective of a (self-proclaimed) Windows stud transitioning to Linux. It is very, very hard. Even as I type this (in mutt) I'm putting in my own hard returns because I have no clue how to set my margins t

Re: Documentation for total beginners

2001-04-18 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, - wrote: > I have a few prospects that I'm trying to talk into doing Linux, Debian > in particular. The problem is they have very little experience except > using MS Windows for internet and games. I've written some very basic > instructions for them just so they can at leas

Documentation for total beginners

2001-04-18 Thread -
I have a few prospects that I'm trying to talk into doing Linux, Debian in particular. The problem is they have very little experience except using MS Windows for internet and games. I've written some very basic instructions for them just so they can at least log on and navigate through the direc