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- From: grossjoh@bonny.ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Kai Grossjohann)
- Newsgroups: comp.emacs
- Subject: Re: auto-fill-mode
- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:31:38
- Organization: Universitaet Dortmund, Lehrstuhl Informatik VI
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- Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann <grossjoh@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
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- In-reply-to: cc2955@sarah.albany.edu's message of Tue, 26 Jan 93 04:56:34 GMT
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- >>>>> On Tue, 26 Jan 93 04:56:34 GMT,
- >>>>> cc2955@sarah.albany.edu (Charley Chen) said:
-
- Charley> I ask before about how to get auto-fill-mode on whenever I use
- Charley> emacs and lots of people reponded and all the reponse were the same
-
- Charley> (setq text-mode-hook
- Charley> '(lambda () (auto-fill-mode 1)))
-
- Charley> but from what I can see I need to be in text mode or something.
- Charley> Usually get the (Fundamental) mode and I still do, even after
- Charley> putting in that thing in my .emacs. My question now is that do I
- Charley> have to compile it or do I need something that will switch me to
- Charley> text mode right away? Thanks.
-
- Hmmm... The idea in Emacs is that you don't want auto-fill-mode for, say C
- source files or other source code files. So they think that for each kind of
- file there is a special mode that does the right thing. If you really want,
- you can get auto-fill-mode for every file you visit by saying:
-
- (setq find-file-hooks
- '(lambda () (auto-fill-mode 1)))
-
- Note, however, that not every buffer belongs to a file. The *scratch* buffer
- you get when you start up Emacs without args does not belong to a file, so
- auto-fill-mode will be off there.
-
- However, I do not miss the feature of having auto-fill-mode in every buffer
- because my text files are usually in TeX-mode or LaTeX-mode or mail-mode or
- news-mode or something.
-
- Hope this gives you some info,
- /Kai
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