On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 12:36:21PM -0500, Luis Mochan wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 08:49:30PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > On 2017-08-02 21:47, Jason wrote: > > > > > I am using emacs24 for my text editor with mutt (in a terminal). > > > How can I set it to automatically wrap the lines at a certain number > > > of characters? > > > > "M-x auto-fill-mode" will do it in a new buffer, provided you set your > > fill-column variable. > > If you have already opened your buffer, you can wrap the lines of a paragraph > with M-q. > > You can set the fill column to say, 72 with C-u 7 2 C-x f Thank you for both replies. I am new to emacs and while I know it can do many different things, right now I would just like it to automatically wrap lines when using for composing messages. "M-x auto-fill-mode" works in the buffer but I would like it to startup in that mode. Here's what's in my config file:
(custom-set-variables ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. '(auto-fill-mode t) '(fill-column 80) '(fill-nobreak-predicate nil)) (custom-set-faces ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right. ) What am I missing? Thanks. -- Jason
