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
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:01:14AM -0500, Jason Pepas wrote: > wait till will gets wind of this... look out... ! :) > well, here are some resources you might not have known about: > > http://www.aokiconsulting.com/debian-survival/ > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/ > http://newbied

Re: Documentation for total beginners

2001-04-18 Thread Jason Pepas
wait till will gets wind of this... well, here are some resources you might not have known about: http://www.aokiconsulting.com/debian-survival/ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/ http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/ there are a few more which you probably already know about mentioned o

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