From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Baloff Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: the 70 char line limit Date: 04 Aug 2005 08:50:46 +1000 Organization: iPrimus Customer - reports relating to abuse should be sent to abuse@iprimus.com.au Message-ID: <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 1123108417 24114 80.91.229.2 (3 Aug 2005 22:33:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 22:33:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 04 00:33:35 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0Rmn-0005oR-L9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:32:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0RpZ-00057n-GR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2005 18:35:21 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.50.176.190 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.134.67.67 Original-X-Trace: 1123108224 un-2park-reader-02.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au 632 203.134.67.67:2523 Original-X-Complaints-To: Abuse, including message IDs to abuse@pipenetworks.com Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.moat.net!quokka.wn.com.au!token.pipenetworks.com!218.100.2.58.MISMATCH!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132885 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:28403 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28403 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. thanks