Re: [OT?] disabling automatic line-break in emacs octave-mode

[Leo Butler]

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Francesco Potortì wrote:

< >I personally find the way emacs automatically breaks lines in octave-
< >mode very annoying and I was looking for a way to disable it.
< 
< Put this into your /.emacs file:
< 
< (add-hook 'octave-mode-hook (lambda () (auto-fill-mode 0)))

The default column width in emacs in 70 characters including the
newline. This is usually pretty small. You can reset this by

C-u 200 C-xf

(C-u is control-u, etc.)

or by the elisp command

(set-fill-column 200) 

Both enlarge the column width to 200.

auto-fill-mode is too useful in general to just turn-off, imo. So I
often reset the fill-column, input some lines I don't want broken, then
reset to the default.

Leo
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