Re: Emacs command line option

1998-11-02 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
daniel worte, > One reason some people are disgusted with emacs is the changes that RMS > and company puts in emacs files. Everytime a new version comes up it seems > to break some old code that used to work. that and it's use to force the True Faith of GNU down our throats. Remember lignux?

Re: Emacs command line option

1998-10-30 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Mika Fischer wrote: > Hi! > > I've got a problem with Emacs. I want it to be started in auto-fill-mode. > No problem so far. But I have to use an numeric argument with it. > This is not possible with the '-f' CMD-line option. > > So how can I start Emacs in 'auto-fill-mode 7

Re: Emacs command line option

1998-10-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Adam Lazur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: Emacs command line option

1998-10-30 Thread Adam Lazur
> 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-mo

Re: Emacs command line option

1998-10-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
> I'll try out it, but I think I will have to read the docs if I really > want to understand Emacs (and I do). Is there somewhere some kind of > 'Getting started with Emacs'-guide on the net? start emacs M-x gnus [enter] j gnu.emacs.help u g [enter][enter] H f [enter] HTH, Matthew -- Elen si

Re: Emacs command line option

1998-10-30 Thread Mika Fischer
On Fri, Oct 30, 1998, dpk wrote: > Create a ~/.emacs file with the following lines: > (setq default-major-mode 'text-mode) > (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'auto-fill-mode 70) I tried it and it didn`t work. As I don't understand it I can't say why. (I'm using v20.2.2) The second point is that I don't

Re: Emacs command line option

1998-10-30 Thread dpk
On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Mika Fischer wrote: Hi! I've got a problem with Emacs. I want it to be started in auto-fill-mode. No problem so far. But I have to use an numeric argument with it. This is not possible with the '-f' CMD-line option. So how can I start Emacs in 'auto