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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: 13 Jan 89 22:08:30 GMT
References: <129@ai.cs.utexas.edu> <458@megatek.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: hollen@spot.megatek.uucp (Dion Hollenbeck)

In article <458@megatek.UUCP>, hollen@spot (Dion Hollenbeck) writes:
>This is right out of the INFO facility of emacs under the menu items
>"emacs, init, examples" (this puts you three levels down):
>
>   * Turn on Auto Fill mode automatically in Text mode and related modes.
>     
>          (setq text-mode-hook
>            '(lambda () (auto-fill-mode 1)))
>
>
>Just add the above lines (less comment line) and this should work for you.

slightly better is the following (in simple.el, hence preloaded):

  (defun turn-on-auto-fill ()
    "Unconditionally turn on Auto Fill mode."
    (auto-fill-mode 1))

allowing:

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

Now, hooks can also be lists, so it might be better to make it a list.
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/jr
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