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>>>>> Regarding auto-fill-mode; cc2955@sarah.albany.edu (Charley Chen) adds:


Charley> Can someone tell me how to have auto-fill-mode on everytime I
Charley> use emacs?  besides using M-x auto-fill-mode everytime I use
Charley> it.  Thanks

here's what's in my .emacs file (well, really my .emacs.el file, but
why cloud the issue?):

(setq text-mode-hook
      '(lambda ()
	 (auto-fill-mode 1)
	 ))

I also do this for mail-mode, outline-mode and dbx-mode.  Add to your
own favorite major mode and get to work.  


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I ask before about how to get auto-fill-mode on whenever I use emacs and lots
of people reponded and all the reponse were the same
   (setq text-mode-hook
         '(lambda () (auto-fill-mode 1)))

but from what I can see I need to be in text mode or something.  Usually get 
the (Fundamental) mode and I still do, even after putting in that thing in
my .emacs.  My question now is that do I have to compile it or do I need 
something that will switch me to text mode right away?  Thanks.


						Charley

>>>>> On Tue, 26 Jan 93 04:56:34 GMT,
>>>>> cc2955@sarah.albany.edu (Charley Chen) said:

  Charley> I ask before about how to get auto-fill-mode on whenever I use
  Charley> emacs and lots of people reponded and all the reponse were the same

  Charley>    (setq text-mode-hook
  Charley>          '(lambda () (auto-fill-mode 1)))

  Charley> but from what I can see I need to be in text mode or something.
  Charley> Usually get the (Fundamental) mode and I still do, even after
  Charley> putting in that thing in my .emacs.  My question now is that do I
  Charley> have to compile it or do I need something that will switch me to
  Charley> text mode right away?  Thanks.

Hmmm... The idea in Emacs is that you don't want auto-fill-mode for, say C
source files or other source code files. So they think that for each kind of
file there is a special mode that does the right thing. If you really want,
you can get auto-fill-mode for every file you visit by saying:

	(setq find-file-hooks
	      '(lambda () (auto-fill-mode 1)))

Note, however, that not every buffer belongs to a file. The *scratch* buffer
you get when you start up Emacs without args does not belong to a file, so
auto-fill-mode will be off there.

However, I do not miss the feature of having auto-fill-mode in every buffer
because my text files are usually in TeX-mode or LaTeX-mode or mail-mode or
news-mode or something.

	Hope this gives you some info,
	/Kai
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cc2955@sarah.albany.edu (Charley Chen) writes:
: 
: Can someone tell me how to have auto-fill-mode on everytime I use emacs?  
: besides using M-x auto-fill-mode everytime I use it.  Thanks
: 
: 
: 	Charley


     I don't know if this will do it or not, but I have the following
line in my .emacs file and it seems to do what you're asking:

(setq-default auto-fill-hook 'do-auto-fill)

 Hope this helps!

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