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From: connelly@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Jay H Connelly)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: emacs inti file
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Date: 9 Oct 89 00:47:55 GMT
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Reply-To: connelly@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Jay H Connelly)
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Can anyone tell me how to use the .emacs file ?  I tried putting the
line : <esc> x auto-fill-mode
in the file but to no avail - I got an error in the init file.

any suggestions ?

jay