From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Enforced wordwrap Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:27:48 -0600 Message-ID: References: <1219194568.10305.13.camel@localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219206550 31055 80.91.229.12 (20 Aug 2008 04:29:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:29:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 20 06:30:02 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KVfKa-0003Td-Pq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:30:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58407 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVfJd-0000jX-Ei for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:29:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVfIf-0000MJ-LZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:28:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVfId-0000KQ-Th for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:28:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41153 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVfId-0000KH-K1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:27:59 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:54801 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KVfId-0005QZ-8H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:27:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KVfIW-0007Oo-0T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:27:52 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:27:52 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:27:52 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) In-Reply-To: <1219194568.10305.13.camel@localhost> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:56806 Archived-At: Eddie wrote: > I recently started using Emacs 22.1.1 on Mandriva 2008.1. To my dismay, > I find that this version enforces a hard line break on or before 80 > characters in a line. > > I've tried adding lines such as > > (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-off-auto-fill) > > to my .emacs, and also tried > > (setq default-major-mode 'fundamental mode) > > Neither work. > > A lot of my usage is through a Firefox add-on called It's All Text!, > which links a Web text box to the editor of your choice. I fill in Web > forms a couple of hours a day for work; It's All Text! opens a new > iteration of Emacs in every form, and to have to reset the behavior for > every form would be a time sink. > > Note: This appears to be something in the Mandriva package. I've been > using Emacs 21 and 22 on an older Ubuntu, and Emacs 23.1 on Pardus, and > there's no enforced wordwrap on any of them. I've asked this same > question on the Mandriva forum, hoping I can catch the eye of some > package developer. But I'd also like to ask here, and I welcome hints as > to where to look in other configuration files to try to find what is > causing this. I would try `M-x find-library RET default' and `M-x find-library RET site-start'. What does `C-h m' show in the buffer edited via the Firefox add-on? -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA