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Article #8301Re: Word Wrap in Gnu Emacs
From: John Robinson
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1989 22:08
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1989 22:08
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In article <458@megatek.UUCP>, hollen@spot (Dion Hollenbeck) writes:
>This is right out of the INFO facility of emacs under the menu items
>"emacs, init, examples" (this puts you three levels down):
>
> * Turn on Auto Fill mode automatically in Text mode and related modes.
>
> (setq text-mode-hook
> '(lambda () (auto-fill-mode 1)))
>
>
>Just add the above lines (less comment line) and this should work for you.
slightly better is the following (in simple.el, hence preloaded):
(defun turn-on-auto-fill ()
"Unconditionally turn on Auto Fill mode."
(auto-fill-mode 1))
allowing:
(setq text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
Now, hooks can also be lists, so it might be better to make it a list.
--
/jr
jr@bbn.com or bbn!jr
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bbn!jr@bbn.com From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Word Wrap in Gnu Emacs Message-ID: <34526@bbn.COM> Date: 13 Jan 89 22:08:30 GMT References: <129@ai.cs.utexas.edu> <458@megatek.UUCP> Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson) Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation, Cambridge MA Lines: 26 In-reply-to: hollen@spot.megatek.uucp (Dion Hollenbeck)