Howto turn on longlines-mode in .emacs?

Howto turn on longlines-mode in .emacs?

[nic.d.m.1]

Hi!

I want to turn on longlines-mode by default, so I put the following in
my .emacs file:

(setq longlines-mode t)

But it doesn't work. Any hints?

If I then type: M-x longlines-mode emacs writes: "longlines-mode
disabled", if I type it again, it works...

thanks
nic

Re: Howto turn on longlines-mode in .emacs?

[Anselm Helbig]

Hi!

> I want to turn on longlines-mode by default, so I put the following in
> my .emacs file:
> 
> (setq longlines-mode t)
> 
> But it doesn't work. Any hints?

How about this one:

  (add-hook 'find-file-hook 'longlines-mode)

HTH, 

Anselm


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Re: Howto turn on longlines-mode in .emacs?

[Sean Sieger]

nic.d.m.1@googlemail.com writes:

    If I then type: M-x longlines-mode emacs writes: "longlines-mode
    disabled", if I type it again, it works...

It sounds like you're toggling longlines-mode off and on.

Do

C-h f longlines-mode

Re: Howto turn on longlines-mode in .emacs?

[nic.d.m.1]

Hi!

Thanks for help. In the meantime I realized that longlines-mode has
some drawbacks for example it doesn't work correctly with comments in
latex.

Now I use

(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)

in my .emacs file

which seems to work together with comments in latex.

The con of this thing is, that I have to work with a fixed fill-column
value.

regards
nic

Re: Howto turn on longlines-mode in .emacs?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 09.05.2009 um 21:55 schrieb nic.d.m.1:

> The con of this thing is, that I have to work with a fixed fill-column
> value.


Have you thought of setting it to 9,999 or such? (A file or buffer  
can have local variables set.)

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Re: Howto turn on longlines-mode in .emacs?

[Anselm Helbig]

Hi! 

> Thanks for help. In the meantime I realized that longlines-mode has
> some drawbacks for example it doesn't work correctly with comments in
> latex.

Yes, longlines-mode is great for some files but not so great for
others. You should turn it on for major modes where you need it
regularly by adding it to the major-mode's hook. For one-off cases
file variables come in handy. See (info "(emacs) File variables") if
you don't know about them yet. 

Regards,

Anselm


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Re: Howto turn on longlines-mode in .emacs?

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com>:

> Yes, longlines-mode is great for some files

I would argue that with emacs 23 (and possibly earler), longlines-mode
is no longer great. Just turn off auto-fill-mode and (setq word-wrap t)
instead. This is much more robust, and doesn't interact badly with some
major modes the way longlines-mode does.

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Re: Howto turn on longlines-mode in .emacs?

[Teemu Likonen]

On 2009-05-10 10:54 (+0200), Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:

> I would argue that with emacs 23 (and possibly earler), longlines-mode
> is no longer great. Just turn off auto-fill-mode and (setq word-wrap
> t) instead. This is much more robust, and doesn't interact badly with
> some major modes the way longlines-mode does.

Or perhaps use visual-line-mode which conveniently sets other related
variables too and redefines some movement keys to act on visual lines.