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From: Shashank Khanvilkar <shashank@mia.ece.uic.edu>
Subject: Using autofill./
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 10:24:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dhu6nk$r9u$1@newsx.cc.uic.edu> (raw)

Hi,
Will appreciate some help here.

I am trying to make an ascii resume. I had set the line width to 75 
characters. However now i find another site which requires the line 
width to be just 62 characters.

To do this I am using the emacs autofill mode and have set the 
fill-column variable to 62 by placing the following lines in ~/.emacs.

(setq text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
(setq fill-column '62)

However suppose I have a paragraph like the below:
Background
----------
* This is a test message. This is a test message. This is a test 
message.This  is a test message. This is a test message. This is a test
message. This is a test message. This is a test message.
* This is a second test message.  This is a second test message.
This is a second test message.  This is a second test message.
This is a second test message.

How do i ask emacs to apply the new line width.
I tried using <Meta-q> but it makes the above lines as:


Background ---------- * This is a test message. This is a test
message. This is a test message.  This is a test message. This
is a test message. This is a test message. This is a test
message. This is a test message.  * This is a second test
message.  This is a second test message.  This is a second
test message.  This is a second test message.  This is a
second test message.


Am i doing something wrong here.
Thanks
Shashank

             reply	other threads:[~2005-10-04 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-04 15:24 Shashank Khanvilkar [this message]
2005-10-04 16:12 ` Using autofill./ Peter Dyballa
2005-10-04 17:32 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2005-10-05  0:18   ` Neon Absentius
     [not found]   ` <mailman.9763.1128471558.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-10-05 13:45     ` Giorgos Keramidas
2005-10-05 14:26       ` Neon Absentius
     [not found]       ` <mailman.9832.1128522413.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-10-05 14:56         ` Giorgos Keramidas
2005-10-05 15:10           ` Neon Absentius
2005-10-04 17:41 ` rgb

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