From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rant - Emacs mail is not user friendly Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:52:15 +0100 Message-ID: <87r3x2dahs.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> References: <871tp4wut1.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416178368 14072 80.91.229.3 (16 Nov 2014 22:52:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 22:52:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Kelly Dean" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 16 23:52:41 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq8gT-0008S6-EB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:52:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45311 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq8gT-0004pS-2r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:52:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49198) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq8gK-0004pF-2J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:52:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq8gE-0006AL-03 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:52:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.22]:57047) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xq8gD-0006A7-Mo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:52:25 -0500 Original-Received: from rosalinde.fritz.box ([89.245.69.185]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx103) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MCcE2-1XhqxB30HS-009SLb; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:52:15 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Kelly Dean's message of "Sun, 16 Nov 2014 12:18:41 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:xM6R3Eyy9RLt3Nj686dK1ZzFSDmPqiSMnwGsOudle05L/9fJy/I 04X3RxMPPtoYRtXID4k3VCLdPN1iSSIghh/+5Ouv/C+g2XhxgaVE1QVng3G1/NC07wZiScl FltvNg/YAk+bnC9v/wQoKI3SE5andZMEyHm9ckvMaLlCBaWjGZ6pKzzd7Rj2SZLnZgeGplb 7IPBuEd3fOfiTrVV3Otdw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:177366 Archived-At: On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 12:18:41 +0000 "Kelly Dean" wrote: > Last problem that I do care about is that Emacs keeps inserting line > breaks after 72 characters, so I have to switch out of message-mode or > copy/paste from another buffer to make it stop doing that because I > can't find the setting to turn it off. Why is it turned on by default? > Modern email readers do have word-wrap, after all. Even Emacs. Does customizing message-fill-column do what you want? (If you have a message-mode buffer when you change the value, it seems you have to kill the buffer and open it afresh to get the effect.) Steve Berman