From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: newbie question about truncating lines - what to put in my .emacs file? Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 10:27:21 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E414979.4060001@ihs.com> References: <86dea8f5.0302050834.74ad4ff6@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044467355 27532 80.91.224.249 (5 Feb 2003 17:49:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 17:49:15 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18gTTO-0006HX-00 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 18:36:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gTSo-0005yA-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 12:35:58 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1044466035 40464581 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109835 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6340 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6340 Ted Sung wrote: > I'm running emacs 21.2.1 on W2K. I frequently load in files > which have long lines and I don't want them to wrap. So under > the Options menu, I select "Truncate long lines in this buffer". > That works well but I would like to truncate long lines in every buffer I load. (setq-default truncate-lines t) > I also want to set the word wrap in text modes to be on. (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill) -- Kevin Rodgers