On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:40:35PM -0700 or thereabouts, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > | On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 08:43:19AM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote:
> > | > i'm curious. why is it that the textwidth has to be set to either
> > | > 70 or 72 when the console can display 80? my tw=79 how is my
> > | > messa
Hello,
>=20
> You can also set options for individual files in vim by including a line
> like 'vi: textwidth=3D72' in the file.
At the risk of putting fire to the ancient editor war. In
(x)emacs one can use auto-fill to the same effect. As an example, for
editing mail, I use post
> | On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 08:43:19AM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote:
> | > i'm curious. why is it that the textwidth has to be set to either
> | > 70 or 72 when the console can display 80? my tw=79 how is my
> | > message appearing?
I remember IBM punch card was 80 char wide. And last 8 column was
s
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:15:11PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
| On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 08:43:19AM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote:
| >
| > i'm curious. why is it that the textwidth has to be set to either
| > 70 or 72 when the console can display 80? my tw=79 how is my
| > message appearing?
|
| It's
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 08:43:19AM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote:
> >
> i'm curious. why is it that the textwidth has to be set to either 70
> or 72 when the console can display 80? my tw=79 how is my message
> appearing?
It's not that it *has* to be set to 70 or 72. It's that by setting it
there the
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:06:58PM -0400 or thereabouts, dman wrote:
>
> Ditto for vim.
>
> See ":help textwidth" and ":help formatoptions" for more details. For
> writing mails (such as this) I use ":set tw=70 fo=tcq". (BTW this can
> be added to the .vimrc and executed automatically or it can
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 08:49:50PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
| Thus spake Matthew Dalton:
| > dman wrote:
| > >
| > > Ditto for vim.
| > >
| > > See ":help textwidth" and ":help formatoptions" for more details. For
| > > writing mails (such as this) I use ":set tw=70 fo=tcq". (BTW this can
| >
Thus spake Matthew Dalton:
> dman wrote:
> >
> > Ditto for vim.
> >
> > See ":help textwidth" and ":help formatoptions" for more details. For
> > writing mails (such as this) I use ":set tw=70 fo=tcq". (BTW this can
> > be added to the .vimrc and executed automatically or it can be typed
> > as
dman wrote:
>
> Ditto for vim.
>
> See ":help textwidth" and ":help formatoptions" for more details. For
> writing mails (such as this) I use ":set tw=70 fo=tcq". (BTW this can
> be added to the .vimrc and executed automatically or it can be typed
> as shown.)
You can also set options for indi
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:25:48PM +0300, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote:
| "V. T. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > I want a terminal based text editor that does word-wrap rather than just
| > wrapping in the middle of a word when it gets to the end of a line. "Joe"
| > seems to do this. Ca
"V. T. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I want a terminal based text editor that does word-wrap rather than just
> wrapping in the middle of a word when it gets to the end of a line. "Joe"
> seems to do this. Can emacs or vi be made to do this?
When Emacs wraps your text in the middle of a
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