First experiences with WSL (a.k.a. Bash on Windows)

Warren Young wyml@etr-usa.com
Thu Aug 11 20:50:00 GMT 2016


On Aug 11, 2016, at 2:44 PM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> 
> On Aug 11 12:34, Warren Young wrote:
>> On Aug 10, 2016, at 9:59 PM, Mark Geisert <mark@maxrnd.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Warren Young wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> 
>>> Would you kindly https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL ?
>> 
>> That option doesn’t exist in this program.
> 
> It does in any program.  Just enter your LF manually.

Seriously?  In 2016?

> And yes, there are still folks out there using text-only MUAs like mutt
> in an 80 columns terminal.  I do.

http://www.rdrop.com/docs/mutt/manual330.html

>> I don’t see the problem anyway.  One unbroken line per paragraph is trivial to wrap in software, and then you get breaks where *you* like them, rather than where *I* like them.
> 
> You're lucky.  You never had to reply to your own mails.  I do and it's
> seriously ugly to see and edit mails with extremly long lines in vim.

Add this to your .vimrc:

  map <F2> !}fmt -w72<CR>

Problem solved.


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