line width as typed

line width as typed

[sam jesse]

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Hi

when I type, the line goes more than 70 char. after I finish typing, I hit
M-q to format to 70 char. how can I get emacs to automatically do this, i.e.
after 70 char, it goes to the next line and justifies the line before it?

thx

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Re: line width as typed

[Teemu Likonen]

On 2009-08-01 06:00 (+1000), sam jesse wrote:

> when I type, the line goes more than 70 char. after I finish typing, I
> hit M-q to format to 70 char. how can I get emacs to automatically do
> this, i.e. after 70 char, it goes to the next line and justifies the
> line before it?

You need to read the Emacs manual. :-) Here's a shortcut:

    C-h r i Auto Fill <Enter>

Re: line width as typed

[Tim Visher]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:00 PM, sam jesse<revrvr@gmail.com> wrote:
> when I type, the line goes more than 70 char. after I finish typing, I hit
> M-q to format to 70 char. how can I get emacs to automatically do this, i.e.
> after 70 char, it goes to the next line and justifies the line before it?

Other than Auto-fill mode.  You could also investigate using
[longlines-mode](http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/longlines.el), which I
like as it doesn't insert hard newlines.

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