Re: any Emacs features to help keep code/comments under 80 columns width?

[ken]

Chris,

To get this when emacs loads, put the following in your .emacs:

(setq text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)

As can be seen, that just sets it for text mode.  Do another for, say, 
html-helper-mode:

(setq html-helper-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)

Personally, I turnaround at 78:

(setq-default fill-column 78)

Since versions seem to be more than normally critical, mine's 20.7.1.


hth,
ken

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seberino@spawar.navy.mil at 15:22 (UTC-0800) on Thu, 28 Nov 2002 said:

= I often write comments and code and look at modeline's Column# display
= to verify I did not go beyond the 80th column when I type.
= 
= Are there any goodies in Emacs to help me accomplish this???
= 
= 
= Maybe....
= 
= 1. Emacs flashes the screen when I reach column 80
= 
= 2. Emacs automatically adds a hard return and moves me to next line
=    when I reach column 80.
= 
= 3. Emacs just doesn't let me type beyond column 80.
= 
= Chris
=