Re: Emacs command line option

[Adam Lazur <ajl4@eecs.lehigh.edu>]

> The second point is that I don't want emacs to always use
> auto-fill-mode but only if it is invoked by mutt.
> But I noticed that the auto-fill-mode breaks always at 70 chars. Even
> if I try to override the value. Strange thing.

here's what I have in my ~/.muttrc to accomplish the auto-fill-mode 
when emacs is invoked from mutt.

set editor="emacs -nw %s --eval '(setq make-backup-files nil) (auto-fill-mode)'"

though all you really need is:

set editor="emacs %s --eval '(auto-fill-mode)'"


HTH,
  .adam

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