Subject: Using vi with pine

From: James Snow <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 13:04:05 -0700

I've discovered that I kind of prefer vi to pico, and I was ecstatic over
the enable-alternate-editor-implicitly option, but my joy was short lived. 

The text that I write in vi doesn't wrap properly when it is imported back
into pine. From the sender's perspective, it looks like a bunch of long
lines. You see a few lines terminated by $'s. Which is all fine and dandy.
But from e recipients perspective (and you see this when you look at the
saved copy of the letter) the wrapping is somewhat fouled up. Text will go
for about 4 lines, and wrap suddenly half way through the fifth line,
resulting in a letter that looks like it was written while punching the
return key randomly. 

Other than using pico and consciously hitting return at the end of each
line in vi, does anyone know of a way around this?

Thanks,
-sno

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From: "Robert de Bath" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 23:40:21 +0100 (BST)

In vi or in your .exrc file

:set wrapmargin=7

-- 
Rob.                           (Robert de Bath <http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>)

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From: skywalker <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 14:17:48 +1000

> the enable-alternate-editor-implicitly option, but my joy was short lived. 
Are you crazy,....how on earth could you prefer that primate editor "VI"
to the useful, helpful, normal interface if pico.

SkyWalker

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