[gentoo-user] Re: NVI and word wrap?

[James]

Thomas T. Veldhouse <veldy <at> veldy.net> writes:


> > Does anybody know how to get NVI to word wrap in a similar manner to
> > VIM?  With VIM, I could use:

> > vim -f '+set tw=78' and it would wrap at 78 characters at a word
> > boundry (great for emails and posts to USENET).
> >
> Well, it seems nobody was able to help me out, but I did find a solution
> that works very well, if anybody is interested.  I simply put the
> following lines in my .bashrc and now my lines wrap at 78 characters
> (considered "correct" for USENET), assuming the console is 80 characters
> (I may have to fix this).
>
> TIN_VI_OPTIONS="set wm=2"
> alias tin='EDITOR="/usr/bin/vi" EXINIT="${TIN_VI_OPTIONS}" /usr/bin/tin'
>
> It took a lot of manpage reading to figure this little tidbit out.  It
> wasn't entirely clear to me that options are passed via an environment
> variable.  With VIM, you can pass them via the -f switch.

I appreciate your sharing this tidbit. I looked at:

http://www.bostic.com/vi/

and saw what they said are advantages. What do you believe are the 
advantages of Nvi?

just curious,

James



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