On 13/04/15 15:22, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 03:01:35PM +1000, Allan Duncan wrote:
Ah-ha! Thunderbird will display long lines wrapped to suit the current display width, and on replying the newly quoted long lines are hard wrapped about 60.
when i used to use thunderbird regularly (at $previous_job), i used a plugin called (IIRC) External Editor, which allowed me to use gvim to edit messages.
this gave me full access to vi's ease of use(*) and vi's features, including piping text through prgrams like par or boxes.
(*) vi is incredibly easy to USE. it's slightly difficult to LEARN vi's advanced features (but vi's basic features can be learnt in half an hour or less)
Agreed, so I use about 10% of its capability. One day I'm going to learn how to get it to record a set of operations and then repeatedly apply them, or how to use wild cards properly. So much to do, so little time left.