From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: linebreak after 78characters Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:58:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200508262048.28781.StefanBienert@web.de> <200508262136.54871.StefanBienert@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1125087000 8546 80.91.229.2 (26 Aug 2005 20:10:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:10:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 26 22:09:59 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E8kV7-0003au-SM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:08:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E8kZ4-00046E-4M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 16:12:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E8kXP-0003Qo-M2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 16:10:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E8kXF-0003NI-Eu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 16:10:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E8kXD-0003Kp-SS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 16:10:43 -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 1E8kPD-000697-9m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 16:02:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1E8kME-0000v4-31 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:59:22 +0200 Original-Received: from 6532248hfc164.tampabay.res.rr.com ([65.32.248.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:59:22 +0200 Original-Received: from david by 6532248hfc164.tampabay.res.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:59:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 6532248hfc164.tampabay.res.rr.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ONkmvISGHg9aUmZFkYzqfk2o8EQ= 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:29018 Archived-At: Stefan Bienert writes: >> > I just wondered where I can set permanently the option, that emacs >> > breaks eac >> > line after 78characters. I can`t find it on the menu. >> >> (set-fill-column 78) in .emacs. This value can be set in every buffer >> to a different value (buffer-local). > > Hm, this doesn`t work for me :-( > Normally I get the line break with a whitespace after the last word, hanging > over the 78-chars mark. > > greetings, > > bienchen I think you have to turn on auto-fill-mode also...