textwidth/linewrap

[Ken Moffat]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 06:40:35PM +0100, Jens John wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jan 2021, at 18:25, tech-lists wrote:
> >
> > I guess lots of people would use mutt with vim-console.
> > 
> > Can anyone tell me please what setting they use for line 
> > wrapping? I thought in .vimrc it'd be
> > 
> > set textwidth=72
> > 
> > but that doesn't seem to work. Is it a setting in .muttrc
> > or in .vimrc? Or an additional setting?
> 
> A syntax plugin may override your settings. I suggest trying the following line in your vimrc:
> 
> autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead mutt-* set tw=72 syntax=mail
> 
> Personally, I use
> 
> autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead mutt-* set tw=72 autoindent noruler syntax=mail
> 

It's probably akin to perl - more than one way of doing it.  I use a
shorter line length,

" Wrap mail messages at 68 characters when I'm editing in mutt
autocmd filetype mail setlocal textwidth=68

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