On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:23:26 -0700 (PDT), in message
alpine.LNX.2.11.1503111521470.9435@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, Rich Shepard wrote:
> 
> >   My emacs wraps lines of .txt files at column 72. However,
> > sometimes (and all too often) it will wrap a line at column 46 or
> > so and there's no way I can fill that line so it remains filled
> > with I re-format the paragraph with M-q.
> 
>    Looking at the emacs customization I learned that C-x f changes
> the column number beyond which the line wraps. This seems to be
> buffer-specific and would need to be set for each buffer when a .txt
> file is loaded. Is there a way to make the desired line wrap column
> the default?

I have the following in my ~/.emacs.d/init.el file:

(add-hook 'text-mode-hook (lambda () (setq-default fill-column 66)))

This automatically sets the fill column to 66 for any buffer that
uses text-mode.  I have a bunch of other things, too.  But then,
my init.el file has become rather... eccentric.  :-)

Hope this helps.

--Dale

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