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From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard)
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Subject: Re: Line-wrapping as opposed to line-truncating
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Date: 6 Mar 89 17:13:02 GMT
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Emacs: GNU >18.50

In article <18082@gatech.edu> ken@gatech.UUCP (Ken Seefried iii) writes:
>
>In most modes do:
>
>		M-x auto-fill-mode
[...]
> For example, to set
>the width to 40 chars, you would say:
>
>		C-u 40 C-x f

And to enable auto-fill-mode permanently, create a file named ".emacs"
in your home directory if you don't already have one, and put the
following kinds of things in it:

To make GNU Emacs use text-mode instead of fundamental mode, as its default:

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

To automagically turn on auto-fill-mode, whenever text-mode is entered:

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

To change fill-mode's line width to something other than the default:

       (setq-default fill-column 72)

For more info, see the section on Init Files in the GNU manual.

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