pasting content problems using VIM + MUTT

Joey Stanford

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Feb 23, 2013, 12:14:03 PM2/23/13

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Howdy,

I'm new to mutt so thanks in advance for the replies.

When I post text content into VIM (normally) it pastes correctly
including lines with longer than 78 characters.

When I create a new mail in mutt and VIM opens, I have issues. When I
paste the same content it's wrapped to 78 and is prefixed by an
asterisk (which then triggers the vim indent plugin).

How do I fix this? I'm using the vimrc_example as my .vimrc and for
mutt I'm not passing an editor line, it just correctly goes to vim.
I've tried about 10 variations of editor = vim with options to turn off
wrap, reset tw, etc. with no luck.

Thanks,

Joey

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Heikki Kallasjoki

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Feb 25, 2013, 5:23:40 AM2/25/13

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On 2013-02-23, Joey Stanford <jo...@stan4d.net> wrote:
> When I post text content into VIM (normally) it pastes correctly
> including lines with longer than 78 characters.
>
> When I create a new mail in mutt and VIM opens, I have issues. When I
> paste the same content it's wrapped to 78 and is prefixed by an
> asterisk (which then triggers the vim indent plugin).

I have no idea where the asterisk might come from, but the text width
setting is presumably due to filetype.vim, which detects email messages
of various clients based on the file name.

As for disabling it, making a .vimrc.mutt with "filetype off" (instead
of the standard "filetype plugin indent on") and specifying that to vim
with the -u option should work.

(Though for me a simple ":set tw=0" when pasting also works, and
suffices.)

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Joey Stanford

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Feb 25, 2013, 7:10:18 PM2/25/13

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On 2013-02-23 19:26:43 +0000, Roger Burton West said:
> Certainly sounds as though vim's starting up in some unexpected
> mode. ps -fwwwC vim (when you've got mutt+vim open in another window)
> to find out what the command-line arguments are? Might be a starting
> point.

Good idea. Sadly it didn't reveal anything other than it was using the
same command I have it mutt (set spell) I test the command from the
terminal and via mutt and pasting while called from mutt still has the
weird issue.

Joey Stanford

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Feb 26, 2013, 4:50:49 PM2/26/13

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On 2013-02-25 10:23:40 +0000, Heikki Kallasjoki said:
> As for disabling it, making a .vimrc.mutt with "filetype off" (instead
> of the standard "filetype plugin indent on") and specifying that to vim
> with the -u option should work.
>

That's worth a try. I did find a workaround though, :set paste

Eike Rathke

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Mar 2, 2013, 1:53:03 PM3/2/13

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* Joey Stanford, 2013-02-26 21:50 UTC:

> That's worth a try. I did find a workaround though, :set paste

That is not a workaround, it is the proper cure if you don't want to
take various effects place when _pasting_.

Eike

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