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From: moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problems with auto-fill-mode
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 18:04:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87im7emk4w.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: trinity-7f07c480-9f4d-4dfd-801e-85720e59dd67-1612025669331@3c-app-mailcom-bs16

jai-bholeki wrote:

> Does it matter which expression to call first.
>
>  (setq fill-column 72)
>  (auto-fill-mode)
>
> or
>
>  (auto-fill-mode)
>  (setq fill-column 72)

No, because the mode uses that variable setting every time
it fills.

But the top version looks better and makes more sense: first
set it up, then enable.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-30 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-30 16:36 problems with auto-fill-mode jai-bholeki
2021-01-30 16:54 ` jai-bholeki
2021-01-30 17:04   ` moasenwood--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-01-30 17:14     ` jai-bholeki

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