Re: line length control setting

[Adam Hardy <emacs@cyberspaceroad.com>]

On 11/07/2003 07:40 PM Gareth Rees wrote:
> Adam Hardy wrote:
> 
>>I am using a brute force method of stopping myself from writing long 
>>lines of code, using this in my .emacs:
> 
> 
> It's very drastic to do this using 'after-change-functions'; this stops
> you from doing useful operations that temporarily create long lines that
> you then propose to reformat (such as query-replace, delete-indentation,
> or indent-region).
> 
> I suggest you use 'local-write-file-hooks' instead, perhaps using Line
> Limit Mode, as described in this post to comp.emacs:
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=uhfdaw35e.fsf%40pobox.com

 From what I can tell, it looks like it only alerts me to the over-long 
lines when I try to save - which would be too late for the way I work - 
or have I misunderstood it?


Adam
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