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From: abrown@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Allen Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: word-wrap in emacs?
Message-ID: <640022@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM>
Date: 16 May 91 19:13:37 GMT
References: <1991May15.141420.25052@forwiss.uni-passau.de>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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> 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.  Please help
>	-Andreas

When you ask a question about emacs you should reveal what type and
version of emacs you are using.

For GNU emacs (all versions I know of) auto-fill-mode will do what you
want.  And the variable fill-column sets the column.  I think the
default is 72.
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