From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Bourguignon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: the 70 char line limit Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:51:42 +0200 Organization: [posted via Easynet Spain] Message-ID: <87irym1vnl.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> References: <87ll3ibpo9.fsf@wash.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123109586 26668 80.91.229.2 (3 Aug 2005 22:53:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 22:53:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 04 00:53:02 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0S66-0007uM-AF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:52:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0S8s-0006xD-2p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2005 18:55:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!oleane.net!oleane!easynet-quince!easynet.net!easynet-post2!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IszeXZQX+1Jj9lxfNJ+v7XVvP7A= Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.93.174.79 Original-X-Trace: DXC=1Q6TNM01NEg^o1lR@H@ZDn9faNSh;fPfnbBd4DjF1d]a Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132887 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:28405 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28405 Baloff writes: > Hello > > I have this line in my .emacs > (setq fill-column 70) ;Text lines limited to 70 chars > but it does not go to new line when I excced the 70 char limit. > how do I get it to do this. > this is helpful in psoting since most of you reading posts can display > 70 char with out having to skip over long blanks to catch the rest of > the sentence which may happen to be on the middle of the next line. M-x auto-fill-mode RET -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ Cats meow out of angst "Thumbs! If only we had thumbs! We could break so much!"