From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Visher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: line width as typed Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 08:27:23 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249389375 15102 80.91.229.12 (4 Aug 2009 12:36:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 12:36:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: sam jesse Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 04 14:36:08 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MYJBI-0003Tr-Jn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:31:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40584 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MYJBI-0006RR-0b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:31:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MYJ75-00035K-B1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:27:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MYJ6z-00031E-JO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:27:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40923 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MYJ6z-000311-CS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:27:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-yx0-f172.google.com ([209.85.210.172]:46889) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MYJ6z-0004dU-0D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:27:25 -0400 Original-Received: by yxe2 with SMTP id 2so6852760yxe.14 for ; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:27:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=vnfZsl3dCy56H6UJZFzkTtdeqdKykwkxv7G54uRKcWs=; b=LfpKc0ceiU93tjQrpSHPDflNoxvgggTWnxkl7Ob/mGKhQoDW51aglK3vH7eaJXgoAo SEx+UVMMUZAMuZe3GVNQj3+ENwpQ9idw8ycn+ls/FZUIUzmi1VBLtXC9RkZeTY/9dwVC Sy0ofJGyf8nCFlm8Tp70S2qa81QJKoFGa6cio= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=c3/2jikHkxautmEMVx0MWbiwXN+ZpGVELCBGMduYcbNE0xSl6fOh+35zqSD7aUG/SK 1CudAvjuMnOHPsut7e0ZZtD9uzYmZwzjcnsf16MzjvyXd1l+MVrwNEKUebAYvp6t0wmO FbolK6QD58cHeltTt/+mhzBZwu6dPjV4YgNFY= Original-Received: by 10.100.227.18 with SMTP id z18mr9449629ang.49.1249388843983; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:27:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66728 Archived-At: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:00 PM, 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? 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. -- In Christ, Timmy V. http://burningones.com/ http://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail