Re: [vile] I can't get 'fillcol' to work

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, address@hidden wrote:

> I'm using a wide window but want to stay within 80 columns
> when I'm in mutt.
>
> So I have added a 'set fillcol=70' when using vile from mutt (my
> mail program).  The value is certainly set, it appears when I do a
> 'setall' but it seems to be having no effect.  I have, in addition,
> tried unsetting 'wrapmargin' but with 'fillcol' set to 70 and
> 'wrapmargin' unset I get no autowrap at all.
>
> Am I misunderstanding what fillcol is supposed to do or is it broken?

fillcol is mostly used when you're doing a :format-til

It also (if you set wrapwords) acts like wrapmargin, forcing new text to 
wrap as it's inserted.  It's been a while since I thought about wrapwords, 
but a quick check seems to show it's still working.

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