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From: pravin@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
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Subject: Re: word-wrap in emacs?
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Date: 17 May 91 02:13:01 GMT
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In a previous article iws9027@eva.fmi.uni-passau.de (Andreas Holzmann) writes:
>It is possible to do an automatical word-wrap in emacs? When I type in
>text emacs should look if I've already typed 60 or 70 chars in a line
>and then does a newline so no line is longer than 60 or 70 chars.

You can do M-x auto-fill for word wrap or put a line in your .emacs
file:

(setq text-mode-hook '(lambda () (auto-fill-mode 1)))

or

(setq text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)

Either of these work.  I think the default width is 72 columns..

pravin

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