Re: Change the expectation that emails should wrap at 80 characters

[Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>]

Wookey <wookey@wookware.org> writes:

> but I think I need to know the  equivalent to 
>  au FileType mail setlocal formatoptions+=w 
> for emacs particularly, but also zile, jed and mcedit (all of 
> which get used from time to time).  Anyone know?

Set `use-hard-newlines' for emacs, according to 
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=36821#8

Looks like there is a use-hard-newlines function to toggle the 
setting in the current buffer.  Let's test...



Bjørn