On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 08:37:30PM +0000, Arkadiusz Drabczyk wrote: > On 2017-08-12, Jason <elect...@emypeople.net> wrote: > > > > 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 <Snipped my previous message and config> > Is that your *whole* Emacs config? > > As said above you need at least one hook. In order to easily use > Emacs in programs such as mutt or slrn I recommend mutt-mode. I > cannot find on the net anywhere any more so I put it here > http://drabczyk.org/mutt.el. mutt-mode will add several nice > keybindings such as C-c C-c to automatically save a message and exit > the current buffer or C-c C-i to automatically jump to the signature, > it will also color quotation and will of course enable auto-fill-mode > automatically. To enable mutt-mode automatically when writing a > message in mutt or slrn put mutt.el in your load-path and add > something like this to your Emacs startup file: > > (defun mutt-mode-hook () > (when > (and > (file-exists-p (buffer-file-name)) > (stringp buffer-file-name) > (or (string-match (concat ".*mutt-comp-[0-9\-]+$") buffer-file-name) > (string-match ".followup" buffer-file-name) > (string-match ".article" buffer-file-name)) > (mutt-mode) > ))) > > (add-hook 'find-file-hook 'mutt-mode-hook) > > Replace `comp' with your hostname as by default mutt uses the hostname > to create a message template in /tmp.
Thank you Ian and Arkadiusz. I implemented the above solution with 'mutt.el' and it works great. For some reason C-c C-c does not work to exit though. It throws the following error: Symbol's function definition is void: server-edit Is there an easy answer to that? Thanks. -- Jason
