[PLUG] Re: [SLL] mutt (re)formatting command

[Soren Jacobsen]

On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 10:27:50AM -0700, Bruce Kingsland wrote:
> In a previous version of mutt (redhat 6.x), there was a formatting
> command that would take long-line paragraphs and 'fix' them - quoting
> included. I used it for awhile, and then noticed that any editing in
> the paragraph 'fix'ed it, even without the special command.
> 
> All I can remember of that command was that it was not intuitive,
> and use a { in the command sequence .... I first discovered it in a
> magazine article somewhere.
> 
> However, in my current version of mutt (I have always used vi as my
> editor) that auto-fixing of edited long-line paragraphs is disabled,
> and I don't know how to re-enable it; nor can I recall what that cool
> re-formatting command is.

I know that there's the smart_wrap option, but that only controls the
formatting in the pager. I haven't ever seen a reformatting command
for mutt.

Searching the mutt documentation didn't turn up anything particularly
useful.

I just use VIM and just do 'gqip' when I need to reformat text.

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Soren Jacobsen