[asterisk-dev] [policy] Discussion on IRC - how to make -dev more useful

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 04:00:05PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> I'm old.  :-)  I have to keep the xterm windows comfortably readable
> because I stare at them all day.  And, ironically, I have another
> problem, which perhaps someone knows the answer to:  If you *do* run
> mutt in an xterm wider than 80 characters, I have not yet found a
> reliable way to get *vi* (vim, actually) to autowrap based on the
> *left* margin rather than the right one, as is its default.  This
> leaves you needing to reset your wm every time you resize the window,
> which is similarly unpleasant.
> 
> Suggestions?  Did I miss, say, the ability to 
> 
> set wm=-72
> 
> ?

I did: it's called "textwidth", and it figures from the left.  Thanks,
Tilghman, for prompting me to go look it up.

Cheers,
-- jra
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