Brian E. Lavender wrote:
> [cc'ed to lug-nuts]
> On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 10:48:45AM -0700, Mike Machado wrote:
>
> Mike,
>
> Are you using vi to edit your email? What you are writing is all going
> on one line. It probably looks ok if the email client wraps the lines,
> but often when someone replies, some people's email clients will view it
> as a line that stretches way far out (i.e. forte agent on windoze). Here
> are a couple tips for automatically putting newlines in your messages.
>
Its this mutt thing. I will just press enter because if I do auto wrapps it will mess up my programming.
>
> :set wrapmargin=7
>
> This will autmatically insert a newline when you get within 7 characters
> of the end. If your xterm is 80 characters wide, you have 72 characters
> to work with. AFAIK, that will work well with a default printcap. You
> can also take your message and execute a shell command on the text. My
> favorite is
>
> $ fmt
>
> The way you do this is
>
> :.,$!fmt
>
> which will do your entire message, but sometimes mess up some specific
> manual formatting you may have included. So you can do
>
> !}fmt
>
> which will do just one paragraph.
>
> Below is the original text you typed as a reply, and it reformated
> with
>
> !}fmt
>
> > MySQL has this really cool option you can turn on a int column called auth_increment, by which the name implies it increments the column every time a new row in inserted. Useful for unique id's and such.
>
> > MySQL has this really cool option you can turn on a int column called
> auth_increment, by which the name implies it increments the column every
> time a new row in inserted. Useful for unique id's and such.
>
> As you can see, my original reply on has one ">" mark because your text was on
> just one line. Hmm, I can fix that with a search and replace.
>
> :46,48s/^/Mike> /g
>
> and voila, you get as you see below. I manually deleted the first ">"
> because I was not quite sure how to say match the beginning of the
> line, but not where there was a ">" already. Plus, I also had it replace
> the beginning with "Mike".
>
> Mike> MySQL has this really cool option you can turn on a int column called
> Mike> auth_increment, by which the name implies it increments the column every
> Mike> time a new row in inserted. Useful for unique id's and such.
>
> Can you see the difference?
>
> brian
> --
> Brian Lavender
> http://www.brie.com/brian/
-- Mike Machado mike@innercite.com InnerCite Network Specialist
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