Re: Can't turn on auto-fill-mode in c-mode (is it only for text-mode??)

[Greg Hill <ghill@synergymicro.com>]

Chris,

I see that in Emacs-21 the default value of auto-fill-function for 
c-mode is c-do-auto-fill, which is defined in 
lisp/progmodes/cc-cmds.el.  (Emacs-20 uses plain old do-auto-fill.)

While visiting your .c file, try changing auto-fill-function (which 
is a buffer-local variable) to 'do-auto-fill, and see if it behaves 
more like you would expect.  If so, then you might want to 
investigate what the difference is between c-do-auto-fill and plain 
old do-auto-fill.

--Greg



At 12:38 PM -0800 1/21/03, Christian Seberino wrote:
>"emacs aa" opens a new file and I can do M-x auto-fill-mode to put it
>into auto-fill-mode.  (I nuked .emacs so that won't be a red herring.)
>
>"emacs aa.c" throws it into c-mode (cc-mode?) and M-x auto-fill-mode
>has no noticeable effect. 
>
>HOW COME AUTO-FILL-MODE DOESN'T WORK IN C-MODE???
>
>Chris
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