Re: newbie question about truncating lines - what to put in my .emacs file?

[Glenn Morris]

Ted Sung wrote:

> So under the Options menu, I select "Truncate long lines in this
> buffer". That works well but I would like to truncate long lines in
> every buffer I load.

(setq-default truncate-lines t)

> I also want to set the word wrap in text modes to be on.

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