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From: tyler <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: automatic new-line after 80 columns
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:58:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k57nhebe.fsf@blackbart.sedgenet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200902181125.40739.rodrigo.canellas@tqtvd.com

Rodrigo Canellas <rodrigo.canellas@tqtvd.com> writes:

>
> I created a file '/var/tmp/t.cpp'.
> Then when I typed 'C-u 80 C-x f', 'emacs' said 'Fill column set to 80 (was 70)'
> And when I typed 'C-u 1 M-x auto-fill-mode', it did not say anything.

You need to customize c-ignore-auto-fill. By default autofill only works
for c comments, but you can change this so that it works in code too.
After doing this you example worked like you wanted it to (you may need
to hit the tab key to get the filling to work after the line break is
added).

Tyler

-- 
Don't learn the tricks of the trade; learn the trade.





  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-18 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1006.1234898438.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-02-17 22:21 ` automatic new-line after 80 columns B. T. Raven
2009-02-18 14:25   ` Rodrigo Canellas
2009-02-18 16:58     ` tyler [this message]
2009-02-18 18:49       ` Rodrigo Canellas
2009-03-17 13:09         ` Nishith Nand
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1068.1234967171.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-02-18 17:23     ` B. T. Raven
2009-02-18 18:30       ` Rodrigo Canellas
2009-02-17 19:20 Rodrigo Canellas

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