How make auto-fill-mode NEVER allow text past 80 columns?? (So no loopholes?......)

How make auto-fill-mode NEVER allow text past 80 columns?? (So no loopholes?......)

[Christian Seberino]

auto-fill-mode is great because *sometimes* it reformats text
adding hard returns to avoid text going past a certain column....

But it is possible to bypass this "brick wall".  For example,
if I add text in the middle of a line, it won't activate the
reformatting code of auto-fill unless I go to the right end
and add a space at end.

How close these loopholes so text NEVER goes past a certain
column like column #80???

Thanks,

Chris

Re: How make auto-fill-mode NEVER allow text past 80 columns?? (So no loopholes?......)

[Kai Großjohann]

seberino@spawar.navy.mil (Christian Seberino) writes:

> But it is possible to bypass this "brick wall".  For example,
> if I add text in the middle of a line, it won't activate the
> reformatting code of auto-fill unless I go to the right end
> and add a space at end.

You can hit M-q to fill.  That's quite convenient, and I think most
people use this.  (I guess you know this already.)

Then there's refill.el which comes with Emacs 21, I belive.  It hits
M-q for you.
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