Thus spake Ben Hartshorne: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 10:42:55PM +0530, Jeffrin Jose T. wrote: > > > > How to fix emacs such that it does not > > typically do lines longer than 75 columns ? > > > > I think what you're looking for is the 'set-fill-column' and > 'auto-fill-mode' option. The trick is applying it. Someone on this > list can add to my post -- I don't know how to apply it to the current > buffer, because it requires an arguments (the number of characters per > column). I use it in my .emacs file: > > (add-hook 'text-mode-hook > `(lambda () > (column-number-mode 1) > (line-number-mode 1) > (menu-bar-mode 0) > (auto-fill-mode 1) > (set-fill-column 92))) > > This tells it to wrap at 92 characters when I'm in text mode. I don't > want it to wrap when I'm in programming (C, java, perl, whatever) mode, > so I leave that hook out of the 'C-mode-hook. > > -ben > If you're looking for this for email with mutt, try this: create a file called .emacs-mutt (or whatever you want to call it) and put this in it:
(setq-default fill-column 72)
(setq-default default-major-mode 'text-mode)
(setq-default text-mode-hook 'auto-fill-mode)
In your .muttrc files add:
set editor="emacs -l ~/.emacs-mutt"
Somebody just passed this on to me a few weeks ago - but then I
discovererd vim :-)
Good luck,
Steve
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