Re: [sup-talk] tiny patch re: editor (vim)

From: Matias Aguirre <matiasaguirre@gmail.com>
To: sup-talk <sup-talk@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-talk] tiny patch re: editor (vim)
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:35:35 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1297881187-sup-7241@mintaka> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1297876563-sup-2003@daphne>

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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