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

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

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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