Re: 'gq' not working as expected in Vim 7.3

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Christian Brabandt <cblists@256bit.org> wrote:
> Hi Trey!
>
> On Mo, 11 Jun 2012, Trey Sizemore wrote:
>
>> This was previously working well, but is no longer.  I use vim (v7.3)
>> on my Mac and as my editor on mutt.
>>
>> Now when I use 'gqG' or 'gq}' when replying to a message in mutt, it
>> no longer respects the reply '>' characters and wraps everything in
>> one big glob when I'm just trying to wrap excessively long lines.
>
> please show us the output of :verbose :set fo? ft?
>
> The 'fo' option should include the 'c' and also the 'q' flag. See
> :h fo-table for the description of each flag.
>
> The simplest solution should be to make sure your .vimrc contains a line
> like:
> filetype plugin on
>
> and then create a file like ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/mail.vim (create
> directories that don't exist yet) and add the line:
> setlocal fo+=tcq
>
> to it. That should work.
>
>
> regards,
> Christian

Here is the output of :version

:version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Jun 24 2011 20:00:09)
Compiled by root@apple.com
Normal version without GUI. Features included (+) or not (-):
-arabic +autocmd -balloon_eval -browse +builtin_terms +byte_offset
+cindent -clientserver -clipboard +cmdline_compl +cmdline_hist
+cmdline_info +comments -conceal +cryptv +cscope +cursorbind
+cursorshape +dialog_con +diff +digraphs -dnd -ebcdic -emacs_tags
+eval +ex_extra +extra_search -farsi +file_in_path
+find_in_path +float +folding -footer +fork() -gettext -hangul_input
+iconv +insert_expand +jumplist -keymap -langmap +libcall +linebreak
+lispindent +listcmds +localmap -lua +menu +mksession +modify_fname
+mouse -mouseshape -mouse_dec -mouse_gpm -mouse_jsbterm -mouse_netterm
-mouse_sysmouse +mouse_xterm +multi_byte
+multi_lang -mzscheme +netbeans_intg -osfiletype +path_extra -perl
+persistent_undo +postscript +printer -profile -python -python3
+quickfix +reltime -rightleft -ruby +scrollbind +signs +smartindent
-sniff +startuptime +statusline -sun_workshop +syntax +tag_binary
+tag_old_static -tag_any_white -tcl +terminfo
+termresponse +textobjects +title -toolbar +user_commands +vertsplit
+virtualedit +visual +visualextra +viminfo +vreplace +wildignore
+wildmenu +windows +writebackup -X11 -xfontset -xim -xsmp
-xterm_clipboard -xterm_save
system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/vim"
Compilation: gcc -c -I. -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0 -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
-arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe
Linking: gcc -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -o vim -lncurses


And :verbose :set fo? ft? results in:

formatoptions=tcq
Last set from ~/.vimrc
filetype=

As an example, if i take the following snippet from a mail with a long
line in it:

> I have googled and see that with Vim as the editor, 'gq' is likely what
> I want, but reading the help on this I'm still not sure how to
> invoke/use it.

Take a try with this line. First reply to this email, move the cursor
to this line an press consecutively Vgq. V select the whole line while
gq wraps it.

> Ideally, it would be nice to have the lines in the original e-mail that
> are too long to automatically be wrapped in the reply when I hit 'r'.


If I then use 'Vgq' I get this:

> > I have googled and see that with Vim as the editor, 'gq' is likely what
> > I want, but reading the help on this I'm still not sure how to
> > invoke/use it.
>
> Take a try with this line. First reply to this email, move the cursor
to this line an press consecutively Vgq. V select the whole line while
gq wraps it.
>
> > Ideally, it would be nice to have the lines in the original e-mail that
> > are too long to automatically be wrapped in the reply when I hit 'r'.


Notice how it doesn't preface the wrapped lines with > so that the
e-mail response looks as it should. It *did* used to do this, but not
sure what might have changed recently to cause it to stop working.

Thanks for any guidance!

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