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On 2007-09-18, Blinky the Shark < @ > wrote:
> Kurt Steinhauser wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:03:12 +0000, Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>
>>> Kurt Steinhauser wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hokay, I went back and found my mistake. I've now set my
>>>> slrnrc to use gvim, with a wrap at 72 characters. This is per
>>>> Blinky's earlier post. I hope that Andrew is Ok with the
>>>> notion that I'm going to work with givm instead of vi(m).
>
> If your editor command in .slrnrc includes the tw setting, as does
> mine and as would have the command I gave you for that, the line
> length setting for slrn composition would be passed to gvim when
> slrn called it. That way *all* of your use of gvim (it's not just
> limited to slrn posts ) don't require that setting. My primary
> system is not within reach right now, but I believe my command looks
> like:
>
> set editor_command "gvim -f '+set tw=72' '%s'"
>
>

That is what I set my editor_command options to, then went back in and
changed the tw=72 to tw=70. This is in addition to editing the gvimrc file.

Thanks again for the clarification. Am slowly resolving some of my ye
aulde analogue brain issues.


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Cheerio and all that,
Kurt
(slrn newbie and hired muscle)