From: Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to set line wrap
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:32:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wcvoz9u.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ef94a9c7-6c21-4e10-b9ea-0eec32062774@h2g2000vbd.googlegroups.com>
Hi!
> > > Could some tell me how I can set the line wrap to 80 characters?
> [...]
> Thank you for your reply.
> I have already tried C-u 5 C-x f. It did not do anything.
> Are you recommending that I put the following in my ~/.emacs?
>
> (setq-default fill-column 5)
> (add-hook 'php-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
>
> I've never tried to personalize Emacs before. So, please correct me
> if I am making a mistake.
Go on, try it! It won't reformat you hard drive. 8-) Also, Emacs is
all about customization, but you'll have to learn a little bit of
elisp to grasp what is going on. See e.g.
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/01/emergency-elisp.html
or of course the elisp intro that comes with Emacs.
HTH,
Anselm
--
Anselm Helbig - http://mnemonikk.org/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-22 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-21 23:56 How to set line wrap RAYHAN MUKTADER
2009-12-22 12:48 ` Anselm Helbig
2009-12-22 14:21 ` RAYHAN MUKTADER
2009-12-22 14:32 ` Anselm Helbig [this message]
2009-12-22 15:07 ` RAYHAN MUKTADER
2009-12-22 15:16 ` Anselm Helbig
2009-12-22 21:23 ` RAYHAN MUKTADER
2009-12-22 21:54 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-12-22 22:35 ` Drew Adams
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