XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.software.thunderbird   
   From: ollie@invalid.net   
      
   Thunderbird drives me nuts with its inability to set a line length.   
   (I turned off the HTML long ago which was incapable of correct line feeds).   
      
   gVim can set line length, but I can't figure out how yet as this should   
   work but it doesn't "do anything" unless you're typing already on the line.   
     :set textwidth=80   
      
   The good news is this doesn't truncate words when it works but it   
   doesn't really work because you have to be _editing_ the line to work.   
      
   What I do now every time I send a message that has to look nice from   
   Thunderbird is write it up in Thunderbird first. Then I cut it out of the   
   Thunderbird message (which usually has quoted context that I leave alone).   
      
   Then I paste that new content into Windows gVim.   
   And then I manually adjust each line's line length to look good.   
      
   Then I paste it back into the brain dead Thunderbird.   
   Then it looks the way I want (which is simply 80 character line lengths).   
      
   Obviously this sucks.   
   There must be a better way (and no, HTML styles is NOT that better way).   
      
   In Linux you can use the ":!fmt" command to format to 80 characters.   
   It too will truncate at a space (and not in the middle of a word).   
      
   But Windows doesn't have the capability (as far as I know), unless, of   
   course, I go back 30 years to install CYGWIN or the like (which is crazy).   
      
   I can also use WSL if I install it but really all I'm asking for is one of   
   two basic switches, one in Thunderbird which almost certainly doesn't   
   exist, the other in gVim which probably exists - but I don't know how to   
   use it.   
      
   Is there a setting to make Thunderbird line lengths 80 characters?   
   Is there a way to essentially !fmt Windows gVim to 80 characters?   
      
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