From: Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu>
To: emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Don't break words at end of line in text mode
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 03:21:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46417660.800@gatech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hcqmixg7.fsf@gmail.com>
Amy Templeton wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen (matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu) wrote:
>> I'm trying to figure out how to stop emacs from displaying
>> end-of-line words broken between lines; I'd like the last word to
>> move to the next line. I thought text mode might do this, but
>> apparently not. Is there an option for this?
>
> Try turning on auto-fill-mode (M-x auto-fill-mode), if it's not
> already on.
> If the above is the desired behavior, try adding this to your
> .emacs file:
>
> (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
>
Thank you very much. That mode will be useful when I'm writing plain
text documents in emacs.
> I hope that's helpful!
It is. :) It's about time I figure out how emacs handles filling. One
more thing. When I open a document that isn't filled, I'd like it to be
filled automatically, but only for display (not changing the actual
file). fill-region works, but it modifies the file.
Matt Flaschen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-09 7:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-09 1:02 Don't break words at end of line in text mode Matthew Flaschen
2007-05-09 1:43 ` Amy Templeton
2007-05-09 7:21 ` Matthew Flaschen [this message]
2007-05-09 7:29 ` Daniel Rubin
2007-05-09 7:33 ` Matthew Flaschen
[not found] ` <mailman.415.1178675114.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-05-09 2:29 ` B. T. Raven
2007-05-09 18:03 ` Amy Templeton
2007-05-09 18:09 ` David Hansen
2007-05-09 18:49 ` Amy Templeton
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