Re: Emacs command line option

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Adam Lazur <ajl4@eecs.lehigh.edu> writes:

> > 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)'"

You can set emacs to auto-fill at any column number any time you want
by evaluating:

(auto-fill-mode 70)    or any number you choose to wrap at.
  
In emacs press M-:  you will see a prompt saying 

Eval:    
Type (auto-fill-mode <any number)   and press <RET> it will be
evaluated and used on that buffer.

This is what the muttrc line is doing too.

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