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Re: line length control setting
From: |
Jesper Harder |
Subject: |
Re: line length control setting |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Nov 2003 16:41:22 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Adam Hardy <emacs@cyberspaceroad.com> writes:
> I am using a brute force method of stopping myself from writing long
> lines of code, using this in my .emacs:
>
> (defun my-dont-insert-after-fill-column (&rest x)
> (when (> (current-column)
> fill-column)
> (delete-char -1)
> (beep)))
>
> (add-hook 'after-change-functions 'my-dont-insert-after-fill-column)
>
> But I discovered this is also acting on the command buffer, so I
> cannot add more than my fill column when doing simple file copies or
> renames or text search & replaces.
Have you considered using `auto-fill-mode' instead? This also works
quite well in programming-language modes.