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From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Word Wrap in Gnu Emacs
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Date: 12 Jan 89 18:08:51 GMT
References: <129@ai.cs.utexas.edu>
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In-reply-to: yvo@cs.utexas.edu (Yvonne van Olphen)

In article <129@ai.cs.utexas.edu>, yvo@cs (Yvonne van Olphen) writes:
>
>I figured out how to set word wrap in emacs:
>
>	M-x auto-fill-mode
>
>My problem is, what do I put in my .emacs_pro file to
>make this mode load automatically?  I looked in the manual
>and tried a couple of things, but nothing worked.

Here's what I do:

First of all, I set the default mode (what is used when there is no
file-name-dependent mode to invoke) to be text-mode, by setting the
emacs default mode:

  (setq default-major-mode 'text-mode)

After text-mode is invoked, it runs its "hook", a lisp form that is
evaluated (or a list of such forms) to allow for your own
customizations.  I get text-mode to also come up in auto-fill thus:

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

Cheers,
--
/jr
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