[comp.mail.mush] wrapcolumn and ispell

raj@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Raj Bhandari) (08/09/90)

Hi, all!

ques 1: I use vi as my editor in mush, and I want it to have an automatic line feed (or write feed in the next line instead of f-
eed), and I tried playing around with set wrapcolumn(=70 currently) but it doesn't help. Any suggestions?

ques 2: Can I automatically invoke ispell before I send my message?

Thanks

rb

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schaefer@ogicse.ogi.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) (08/09/90)

In article <35538@ut-emx.UUCP> raj@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Raj Bhandari) writes:
} Hi, all!
} 
} ques 1: I use vi as my editor in mush, and I want it to have an automatic
} line feed (or write feed in the next line instead of feed), and I tried
} playing around with set wrapcolumn(=70 currently) but it doesn't help. Any
} suggestions?

Wrapcolumn only applies to mush itself, it can't be passed on to your
editor.  For vi, you need to modify your .exrc file to contain
something like

	set wrapmargin=7

which will break 7 spaces from the right margin.  Given mush's default
window sizes that should be roughly equivalent to wrapcolumn=70.  Vi
doesn't give you any way to break on N columns from the left.

} ques 2: Can I automatically invoke ispell before I send my message?

Not really, or at least, not in tool mode.  For line/curses modes, there
are several ways you could manage it, the easiest being to use the "map!"
command to create a "send this message" keystroke:

    map! '\CE' '\n~v ispell\n.\n'

This assumes you have used "set dot" so the final ".\n" will send the
message.  Then you have to get used to ending with ctrl-E instead of
ctrl-D.  Something like this is discussed in the MACROS section of
the manual.
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Bart Schaefer						schaefer@cse.ogi.edu