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Re: automatically add newlines
From: |
Pascal Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: automatically add newlines |
Date: |
06 Dec 2003 20:07:39 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
"colin smith" <zxcv4856@hotmail.com> writes:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Thanks for your help with the capitalization question I posted
> previously.
> This question pertains to adding newlines.
>
> I am using a frame configuration of :
>
> (setq initial-frame-alist
> '((width . 123) (height . 43)
> (cursor-type . bar)
> (cursor-color . "black")))
>
> For the present project I am working on I need to keep all lines to a
> fixed length of 75 columns.
> Is there a way to enable emacs to automatically add newlines when I type
> out of the 75 column bound.
> I need a way to do this without changing my frame configuration. The
> reason for this is that with this configuration(and font size I am using),
> the emacs
> frame occupies the whole of my computer screen, which is what somebody would
> usually want.
Use the minor mode: auto-fill-mode
and set the right margin or the fill-column.
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