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Re: [sup-talk] tiny patch re: editor (vim)
Regardless I prefer 72 chars line width, this is more a personal choice
than a forced standard, instead I suggest you to put this to your .vimrc
autocmd FileType mail set textwidth=72
Will have the same effect.
Cheers,
Matías
Excerpts from Christer Edwards's message of Wed Feb 16 15:34:39 -0200 2011:
> I've always been told that email text length should be limited to 72
> characters. I did some more research this morning in preparation for
> sharing this and I find that according to RFC 2822 it should be 78
> characters. I then continue to find more and more discussion about how
> it "doesn't matter" or "use whatever you want".
>
> In any case, below is a tiny patch to configure vim to wrap text at 72
> characters. This patch is specific to the initial file that is used at
> sup-config, but the same line could be edited in your local
> .sup/config.yaml.
>
> In any case, see the example below to configure your textwidth.
>
>
> --- lib/sup.rb 2011-02-16 09:08:19.373333347 -0700
> +++ lib/sup.rb.new 2011-02-16 09:20:07.816666681 -0700
> @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@
> :gpgkey => ""
> }
> },
> - :editor => ENV["EDITOR"] || "/usr/bin/vim -f -c 'setlocal spell spelllang=en_us' -c 'set filetype=mail'",
> + :editor => ENV["EDITOR"] || "/usr/bin/vim -f -c 'setlocal spell spelllang=en_us' -c 'set filetype=mail' -c 'set textwidth=72'",
> :thread_by_subject => false,
> :edit_signature => false,
> :ask_for_from => false,
--
Matías Aguirre <matiasaguirre@gmail.com>
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