From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris Seberino Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What if sometimes want auto-filling and sometimes don't? Necessary tokeep manually turning on/off? Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:27:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1359700223 6899 80.91.229.3 (1 Feb 2013 06:30:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:30:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 01 07:30:37 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U1A8s-0003ef-R9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 07:30:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57988 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U1A8Z-0008UK-Sy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 01:30:11 -0500 X-Received: by 10.224.190.193 with SMTP id dj1mr5797513qab.6.1359700027616; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:27:07 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.49.35.77 with SMTP id f13mr1082363qej.4.1359700027556; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:27:07 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!p13no7812071qai.0!news-out.google.com!k2ni4456qap.0!nntp.google.com!p13no7812065qai.0!postnews.google.com!j2g2000yqj.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j2g2000yqj.googlegroups.com; posting-host=74.194.237.26; posting-account=VkuUtQkAAADKqMjRUmZTNs7a8uCSNNy2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 74.194.237.26 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0,gzip(gfe) Injection-Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:27:07 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:196610 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:88902 Archived-At: On Jan 30, 5:03=A0pm, Bob Proulx wrote: > The reason for a wrap setting that causes words to break and fill > before column 80 is so that replies to messages like the above will > have a little bit extra space to insert quoting marks. =A0The longest > line in Drew's message was 71 and it becomes the longest in Chris' > message at 74 and in mine at 77. =A0It is almost to the point where it > doesn't fit on an 80 column terminal and would need re-wrapping. Why would emacs need to add quotes for you? Even if it did, why would quotes need more than two spaces? Maybe I don't understand correctly how auto filling works. I only want things to move to a new line when I am beyond 80 columns, not before. I want a space to activate reshuffling of my text only when I'm beyond the 80 column barrier. It seems setting fill-column to 79 would do that. I also have code in my .emacs to highlight lines that are longer than 80 columns. Hopefully auto filling will take care of most long lines before that is needed. cs