[Mailman-Developers] Re: mailman and the web (OFFTOPIC)

Gerald Oskoboiny gerald@impressive.net
Mon, 19 Mar 2001 05:42:23 -0500


On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 02:05:24AM +0100, Thomas Wouters wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 12:28:39AM +0100, Ricardo Kustner wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:39:48PM +0100, Thomas Wouters wrote:
> 
> > > Your lines seem to be wrapped at character 100 or so. Doesn't bother me,
> > > my editor (which, contrary to vi, is a real editor <wink>) does the
> > > paragraph reflowing for me :)

Hey, any editor can be misconfigured into doing the wrong thing. :)

> > which editor is that? I can't seem to figure it out from the message
> > headers :)
> 
> It's 'joe', but it could have been (X)Emacs as well :) I haven't figured out
> how to teach (X)Emacs about quote characters yet, though. (joe recognizes
> common prefixes and takes them into account when doing paragraph reflowing.

vim does this too, you just press "gq", then indicate the text that
you want to reflow. (e.g., to reflow the current paragraph, "gq}")

mutt+vim is the best of all possible email worlds imho :)

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