From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Shashank Khanvilkar Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Using autofill./ Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 10:24:52 -0500 Organization: The University of Illinois at Chicago Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1128439722 14076 80.91.229.2 (4 Oct 2005 15:28:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 15:28:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 04 17:28:32 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EMofT-0007ib-0z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:25:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EMofS-0005U9-BI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2005 11:25:22 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!aanews.merit.edu!news.cc.uic.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: mia.ece.uic.edu Original-X-Trace: newsx.cc.uic.edu 1128439348 27966 131.193.50.165 (4 Oct 2005 15:22:28 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@uic.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 15:22:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:134335 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:29908 Archived-At: 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 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