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

[Thomas Dickey]

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

> On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 02:15:29PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > 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.
> Ah, so you're saying that I need to set wrapwords as well as fillcol?

yes - it's defaulted to nowrapwords.  Setting wrapwords would make fillcol
act more like wrapmargin, e.g., make vile wrap words as they approach the
margin.

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