From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Edward O'Connor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: the 70 char line limit Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 15:41:04 -0700 Organization: Church of Emacs Message-ID: References: <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 1123110874 29429 80.91.229.2 (3 Aug 2005 23:14:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 23:14:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 04 01:14:26 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0SQ8-0001Fd-4Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 01:13:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0SSt-0005PG-Vv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2005 19:16:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E0SNc-0003W7-9M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2005 19:10:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E0SNY-0003Uk-E2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2005 19:10:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0SMf-00034E-2g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2005 19:09:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1E0SA4-0001MF-M3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2005 18:56:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1E0Rvj-0006qc-57 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:41:43 +0200 Original-Received: from rrcs-67-52-157-90.west.biz.rr.com ([67.52.157.90]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:41:43 +0200 Original-Received: from hober0 by rrcs-67-52-157-90.west.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:41:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rrcs-67-52-157-90.west.biz.rr.com Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAHlBMVEX47PoBAAegiLwiH1N IQYI0M4iMeKYBAAYGBBGqm9JF4g0mAAACYElEQVR4nGWTsY/aMBTGLXoLo8WQjNVrFJXxzviUbig JEcy5SNft5LhRGT3RNecUuRuiCMn/bZ+dhHDqJ2SZ7+f3nt/DEMOcqv9E9AdQTsD7fPw6hRIz+iw xxuhbMBn3SUtRofk95CTa9D49UIWiRvt4TnTiNmUbHIIDykUxdwm8lTvQUmergwoCpXR/qwojXqk 7jTEK1xANXhKOgD8eRmHggrt2CNKKtfcAU3EHkCbB5OJn4Ws40Prco6jhAyiDoSyeTrAb1gNe+dI eKNVlpvXNE5+pT6HUIjEi24a8B6XvjSrd0rCon5vCDwX7eA2wvV9bqrPWdCAFZBtfA0tQRWmRsE6 uZCMA6qYHbRDg6I5RlxVSFNCISG56QB3oIBNSRKL+JuLMg9LZlGqIUhCFlH9m8FN74GxFQwEFxKm crWYQJQ680v43TSEGEDArAWLJPVAObN8BHDghhrwcI1RYH2GSLMfiKnzWd6DGx4DvwNc41mIC0QQ WqzgXH0HV+kvVoohvIB5AaHRSyCZHyzawtOd4SBUyXR9lxOb2RB7Sz4T0AB8zY/smvWzRIrN0OQL GcsbW8zf7dY1gfsIlZm66JUsdOK3ljjjNCbnoHuxq9jQnb+TkAa6XY0XyJmf7C1uRwfbk4b0m1tr 8+zljb+ROD0+xA9f4umHP9+CTAAesjfGPWNyBvzCAc5ax/I40CFJPvkQrC/vRP+NsiC58LpGKfWH 7Ppy/JMY8ObK0AJfTRUDTz5eQxHS2VxPlG1697N0ee4qSbjeQ64bjc94Nhex1b+2N5Hn1MoJJwlp pf1Rr7/8DXitGHanPc2gAAAAASUVORK5CYII= X-Attribution: Ted User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:56+6ommba7Ru1xBucZ/eCVV+VFI= 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:28406 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28406 > 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. Sounds like you should enable `auto-fill-mode', which see. Ted -- Edward O'Connor hober0@gmail.com Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem.