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Re: line wrap problem


From: Edward Dodge
Subject: Re: line wrap problem
Date: 18 Mar 2003 20:25:57 -0600
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1.30

ngse@yahoo.com (S. Eng) writes:

> Hi
> 
> I want to line wrap at column 72.
> I have the following lines in my .emacs
> 
> (setq default-major-mode 'text-mode)
> (setq text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)

Try this instead:

(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)

Or if you have a newer version of EMACS,  and want to have the
auto-fill even if you're in the middle of a paragraph:

(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'refill-mode)

> (setq current-fill-column 72)

-- 
Edward Dodge

/Confabulation Consulting/


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