Re: emacs: AUTO-FILL-MODE at startup?

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From: Kai Grossjohann
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 1994 13:04

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>>>>> "Dan" == Dan LeGate <dlegate@s1.csuhayward.edu> asks today's
>>>>> auto-fill question:

  Dan> In emacs, can I set it up to START with AUTO-FILL-MODE on
  Dan> already instead of having to set it each time I'm in it?  Is
  Dan> there a command line switch or setenv variable I can use?
  Dan> Thanks!

You probably don't want Emacs to be in auto-fill-mode when editing c
programs or suchlike.  Thus, you want Emacs to be in auto-fill-mode
when editing text, so you put the following in your ~/.emacs file:

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

Hope this helps,
        \kai{}

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From: grossjoh@linus.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Kai Grossjohann)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help,fj.editor.emacs
Subject: Re: emacs: AUTO-FILL-MODE at startup?
Date: 22 Oct 1994 13:04:41 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Dortmund, Lehrstuhl Informatik VI
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To: Dan LeGate <dlegate@s1.csuhayward.edu>
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