textwidth in vim, mutt - different behaviours

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mdl90

Vim doesn't seem to apply textwidth instruction as expected (instead, the line just runs on to the end of the terminal window - so apparently applies no EOL/carriage return). I have confirmed that on start Vim reads ~/.vimrc (line numbers and other settings operate as configured in this file).

Conversely, Mutt (which has Vim set as editor) applies textwidth variable just as expected.

I want Vim to do this as well, but can't see why it is not doing so.
 
Did you check muttrc for editor variable? For example, I use a different vimrc for mutt(1).
Certainly there is a setting which resets your textwidth, search for the abbreviated version tw, or maybe you have a plugin which resets it.
 
It's possibly also the difference between wrap and nowrap. The latter will continue the line even if it's wider than can be shown.
 
SirDice said:
It's possibly also the difference between wrap and nowrap. The latter will continue the line even if it's wider than can be shown.
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Yes, that seems to be it. My initial 'test' just ran the same character across the screen (so, a faulty diagnosis on my part). Now I see that as soon as I enter a whitespace character, this results in the line break being introduced, just as I expect. More here:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Automatic_word_wrapping
 
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