Re: How to set wrap line at window edge

[ken <gebser@mousecar.com>]

"C-7 C-2 C-x f" will wrap at column 72.

;put in your ~/.emacs to setup new emacs session to wrap at col 72
(setq-default fill-column 72)


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On 09/07/2009 12:05 PM bar tomas wrote:
> Yes!  It does say 'Fill' on the mode line ('Org Fill' in fact because
> I'm working with the org mode).
> How do I correct this?
> Many thanks
> 
> 
> On 9/7/09, *Allan Gottlieb* <gottlieb@nyu.edu <mailto:gottlieb@nyu.edu>>
> wrote:
> 
>     At Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:19:30 +0200 bar tomas <bartomas@gmail.com
>     <mailto:bartomas@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     > I think I explained my problem badly.
>     > My problem is that although my buffer occupies all the emacs
>     window, the
>     > lines don't wrap at the windows edge. They wrap quite a distance
>     before (at
>     > about half the window). Is there a solution to this?
> 
> 
>     Perhaps you have auto-fill-mode enabled.  Do you see the word
> 
>     "Fill" in the mode line?
> 
>     allan
> 
> 
>