On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 08:35:25AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I am having a mental block, and cannot remember how to > wrap text in Emacs while composing an email. Specifically, > I need help remembering what key, or keys, should be > pressed after selecting a region of text to get that > region reflowed according to the current settings.
What I do is put a line like this in my .emacs at the top (setq-default major-mode 'text-mode) I believe this causes Emacs to treat files like text unless it sees a special file extension or perhaps something in the file itself to tell it otherwise. and then further down where it has a line that says (custom-set-variables add this: '(fill-column 76) which is the "standard". And then all you have to do is ctrl-e to the end of a sentence or paragraph and press the space bar and it will autowrap. You can M-x emacs-lisp-byte-compile-and-load and you should have your new settings. If not, exit from Emacs and come back in again. > I am using Debian Wheezy. I am using Mutt and Emacs as > installed by the Debian installer. Or maybe I have also > forgotten some special configuring that I had to do to > get this reflow working. I think the above is all you need. If it doesn't work, show us what you have for your .emacs and let us know if it says (text-fill) on the bottom, in your status line somewhere. I am not using Debian but Emacs is pretty much Emacs everywhere. > I really don't need to be told RTFM. I am 80 yrs old. > I forget things. You don't have to be 80 years old to have a hard time figuring out how to setup Emacs options! I can't figure much out from the manual either so I usually search for what I'm looking and find an example that works and then go backwards if I want to understand it. /jl
