Re: indenting and wrapping

[Jeff Hartnell <j.j.hartnell@rl.ac.uk>]

Hi Jochen,
Thanks again for your continuing emails. My problems are solved! Your 
talk about "hooks" sent me off in the right direction (I guess hooks are 
a little snippet of code that gets run for particular file types - 
effectively overriding the defaults).

On reading my .emacs I saw that it was loading /etc/skel/.gnu-emacs 
after checking that ~/.gnu-emacs didn't exist. I copied 
/etc/skel/.gnu-emacs to ~/.gnu-emacs and then I edited the lines


;; Fill-column
;; -----------
;;    Fill-column ist hier auf 78 Charakter gesetzt, nach Wunsch "andern!
(setq-default fill-column 78)
(add-hook 'TeX-mode-hook '(lambda () (setq fill-column 78)))


and also


;;
;; Common to all C modes
;; ---------------------
(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook
    '(lambda () (c-set-style "linux")
	(c-set-offset 'case-label 4)
	(setq c-basic-offset 4)))


to the values of 72 and 2 respectively.

Now, I have the defaults that I want!

Thanks to you and Marek for your help,
Jeff.



>>I tried putting the lines into a tex file and it works. :-) The
>>problem is that I have a lot of tex files... what I would ideally
>>like is a way to tell emacs to *always* wrap to 72 for tex files by
>>default.
> 
> 
> Use customize to put it into TeX-mode-hook.
> ,----[ C-h v TeX-mode-hook RET ]
> | TeX-mode-hook's value is nil
> | 
> | A hook run in TeX mode buffers.
> | 
> | You can customize this variable.
> | 
> | Defined in `tex'.
> | 
> | [back]
> `----
> Maybe you also want text-mode-hook or similar?
> ,----[ C-h v text-mode-hook RET ]
> | text-mode-hook's value is 
> | (turn-on-auto-fill dirvars-hack-local-variables-before text-mode-hook-identify)
> | 
> | Hook run when entering Text mode.
> | 
> | You can customize this variable.
> | 
> | Defined in `textmodes/text-mode'.
> | 
> | [back]
> `----
> 
> Greetings,
> Jochen