Re: automatic new-line after 80 columns

[B. T. Raven]

Rodrigo Canellas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I really can not find how to set 'emacs' to add a new-line when the line reaches the 80th column. 
>
> In 'ccmode', I set it fot the comments, but I would like to define for C++ code 
> as well.
>
> Can anyone help me?
>
> Thanks a lot!

How does what you want differ from the behavior you see if you type this 
in a buffer:

C-u 80 C-x f C-u 1 M-x auto-fill-mode

??
I think this is a minor mode that works with most programming languages.

Ed