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From: robertsr@cs.unca.edu (Ralph Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: word-wrap in emacs?
Summary: Emacs does word wrap beautifully
Message-ID: <1991May16.140307.25739@rock.concert.net>
Date: 16 May 91 14:03:07 GMT
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In article <3913@d75.UUCP> woan@cactus.org writes:
>In article <1991May15.141420.25052@forwiss.uni-passau.de> 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.
>>Please help
>
>Look up auto-fill-mode in your documentation if you are using GNU
>EMACS.

Typing either Esc x auto-fill-mode or M-x auto-fill-mode (where 'M' is
your meta key)  turns on auto-fill-mode  (word wrap) as  a minor  mode
modifying  the current  major mode   in   GNU  Emacs, UniPress  Emacs,
Epsilon, AND Freemacs.

Lots of useful little goodies like this  are in the UNIX DESKTOP GUIDE
TO EMACS coming out in August from Howard W. Sams.

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