replying to long lines (was Unix)

Bevan Broun bevanb at ee.uwa.edu.au
Wed May 10 11:28:40 WST 2000


on Wed, May 10, 2000 at 11:08:13AM +0800, Mike Holland <myk at golden.wattle.id.au> wrote:
> [ I use pine. Do other mailers break up lines before quoting them in
> replies? ]

mutt wraps the long line with a when viewing or replying. The "qf"
command in Vim, the editor I use for everything, will wrap the quoted
text AND add the extra ">" at the start of each line. It's quite a
nice feature.

BB
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