From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Howto turn on longlines-mode in .emacs? Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 10:54:04 +0200 Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <049df466-9c5a-4114-80de-a6b36e4271fe@s20g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> <87zldniucr.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> <87tz3tixxu.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241948667 6042 80.91.229.12 (10 May 2009 09:44:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 09:44:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 10 11:44:18 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 1M35Zx-0003n2-Ke for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 May 2009 11:44:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47123 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M35Zx-0007Ya-20 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 May 2009 05:44:17 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!news-out1.kabelfoon.nl!newsfeed.kabelfoon.nl!bandi.nntp.kabelfoon.nl!news.banetele.no!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: fiinbeck.math.ntnu.no Original-X-Trace: orkan.itea.ntnu.no 1241945298 24884 129.241.15.140 (10 May 2009 08:48:18 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ntnu.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 08:48:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rqxtuHVfrxgvWEhjkRUNE2tU21w= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169038 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:64303 Archived-At: + Anselm Helbig : > 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. -- * Harald Hanche-Olsen - It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. -- Bertrand Russell