Auto line break upon reply email

[Tim Ye]

Hi,

I noticed that some of the replied emails are auto indented by user, so
if the line is longer than, say 72 chars, it'll break into 2 lines
automatically(?). I'm wondering if it's possible to do this in vim?

My email client is mutt.

Thank you,

- Tim

[BPJ]

Den sön 8 maj 2022 09:06'Tim Ye' via vim_use <vim...@googlegroups.com> skrev:

Hi,

I noticed that some of the replied emails are auto indented by user, so
if the line is longer than, say 72 chars, it'll break into 2 lines
automatically(?).  I'm wondering if it's possible to do this in vim?

:setl tw=72

see :h textwidth

I usually also do

:setl cc=72

(see :h colorcolumn)

to have an indication how much I have left on the line and to spot overlong lines which may arise during editing.

HTH,

/bpj

My email client is mutt.

Thank you,

- Tim

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[BPJ]

Den sön 8 maj 2022 10:21BPJ <b...@melroch.se> skrev:

Den sön 8 maj 2022 09:06'Tim Ye' via vim_use <vim...@googlegroups.com> skrev:

Hi,

I noticed that some of the replied emails are auto indented by user, so
if the line is longer than, say 72 chars, it'll break into 2 lines
automatically(?).  I'm wondering if it's possible to do this in vim?

:setl tw=72

see :h textwidth

I usually also do

:setl cc=72

(see :h colorcolumn)

to have an indication how much I have left on the line and to spot overlong lines which may arise during editing.

You also have to make sure "t" is in 'formatoptions' (see :h formatoptions). I forgot that because I always have it. Sorry!

/bpj

[Tim Ye]

Thank you for your reply.

Sorry I didn't make myself clear, what I wanted to achieve is that when
I hit reply (in mutt it's 'r'), I hope that the text in my replied email
would be automatically re-formatted (so if someone else sent an email
which doesn't set textwidth to 72 can be breaking into multiple lines in
my replied email).

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[Tim Ye]

Hi,

I noticed that some of the replied emails are auto formatted by user, so

if the line is longer than, say 72 chars, it'll break into 2 lines
automatically(?). I'm wondering if it's possible to do this in vim?

[Tim Ye]

On 2022-05-08 10:34+0200, BPJ wrote:

>You also have to make sure "t" is in 'formatoptions' (see :h
>formatoptions). I forgot that because I always have it. Sorry!

Yes I have something like the following setting in my muttrc:

set editor = "vim -c 'set comments+=nb:> nocp bg=light tw=72 spell ft=mail formatoptions+=w'"

[Tim Ye]

Please ignore this message, it's duplicated.

Sorry.

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[Christian Brabandt]

You do not need that. Make sure you have :filetype plugin on in your
vimrc, then Vim will automatically detect that you are writing a mail
from mutt and sets some sensible options. Check
$VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/mail.vim for what those are.

This already sets a lot of useful defaults. If you need others, you can
add additional options by writing them into your
~/.vim/after/ftplugin/mail.vim (create non-existing directories).

Thanks,
Chris
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[Tim Ye]

Thank you I'll check them out.