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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: First experiences with WSL (a.k.a. Bash on Windows)
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 21:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160811210556.razod6sdox3jh726@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FDB0837E-7FF5-422A-9176-66222EEF091F@etr-usa.com>

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On Aug 11 14:50, Warren Young wrote:
> 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?

Yes.

> > 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.

And again you're putting the onus on the recipient.  Nice.

Well, never mind, this leads to nothing.


Corinna

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-11 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-10  9:57 Warren Young
2016-08-11  4:00 ` Mark Geisert
2016-08-11 18:34   ` Warren Young
2016-08-11 20:44     ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-08-11 20:50       ` Warren Young
2016-08-11 21:06         ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2016-08-11 23:08           ` Herbert Stocker
2016-08-12  6:22     ` Mark Geisert
2016-08-17  0:53       ` Robert Pendell
2016-08-11 18:36 ` Warren Young

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