On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Joe Bouchard wrote:
> Hi, > > I am using mutt, exim, and emacs. > > I would like to be able to just type long lines as paragraphs and have > something break the line length off. I know this is a standard feature > in most mail systems, and it must be here, but I can't figure out how to set > it. I understand some email readers don't handle long lines well, and > I don't want to be rude when I send mail to those people. > > This must be in the documentation somewhere, but I have been unable to find > it. > I tried to RTFM, and if I only knew which manual, I would be OK. > > I considered setting up an emacs macro, but I figured there must be something > in mutt which I need to set? > Try something like this: (setq-default fill-column 70) (setq-default default-major-mode 'text-mode) (setq-default text-mode-hook 'auto-fill-mode) in your .emacs file.. Or better yet, if you don't want text-mode as your default major mode, put the above in .emacs-mutt, and start emacs with 'emacs -l .emacs-mutt' It should work, but I haven't tested it.
