On 2017-08-12, Jason <elect...@emypeople.net> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 12:36:21PM -0500, Luis Mochan wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 08:49:30PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: >> > On 2017-08-02 21:47, Jason wrote: >> > >> > > I am using emacs24 for my text editor with mutt (in a terminal). >> > > How can I set it to automatically wrap the lines at a certain number >> > > of characters? >> > >> > "M-x auto-fill-mode" will do it in a new buffer, provided you set your >> > fill-column variable. >> >> If you have already opened your buffer, you can wrap the lines of a >> paragraph with M-q. >> >> You can set the fill column to say, 72 with C-u 7 2 C-x f > Thank you for both replies. I am new to emacs and while I know it can do many > different things, right now I would just like it to automatically wrap lines > when using for composing messages. "M-x auto-fill-mode" works in the buffer > but > I would like it to startup in that mode. Here's what's in my config file: > > (custom-set-variables > ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom. > ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. > ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. > ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. > '(auto-fill-mode t) > '(fill-column 80) > '(fill-nobreak-predicate nil)) > (custom-set-faces > ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom. > ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. > ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. > ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. > ) > > What am I missing? > Thanks.
Is that your *whole* Emacs config? As said above you need at least one hook. In order to easily use Emacs in programs such as mutt or slrn I recommend mutt-mode. I cannot find on the net anywhere any more so I put it here http://drabczyk.org/mutt.el. mutt-mode will add several nice keybindings such as C-c C-c to automatically save a message and exit the current buffer or C-c C-i to automatically jump to the signature, it will also color quotation and will of course enable auto-fill-mode automatically. To enable mutt-mode automatically when writing a message in mutt or slrn put mutt.el in your load-path and add something like this to your Emacs startup file: (defun mutt-mode-hook () (when (and (file-exists-p (buffer-file-name)) (stringp buffer-file-name) (or (string-match (concat ".*mutt-comp-[0-9\-]+$") buffer-file-name) (string-match ".followup" buffer-file-name) (string-match ".article" buffer-file-name)) (mutt-mode) ))) (add-hook 'find-file-hook 'mutt-mode-hook) Replace `comp' with your hostname as by default mutt uses the hostname to create a message template in /tmp. -- Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadi...@drabczyk.org>
