Re: How to set wrap line at window edge

[Tyler Smith]

bar tomas wrote:
> Many thanks for all your help.
> Is there no way of telling emacs to wrap around when it gets to the 
> end of the window instead of setting the wrap to a fixed column? I 
> mean the window may be enlarged or reduced and the number of columns 
> it can pack in varies.
> Thanks again.
You could try a function like this:

(defun reset-fill-column ()
 (interactive)
  (set-fill-column (- (window-width) 5)))

Bind that to a convenient key, and call it whenever you change the size 
of the window. There might be a hook you could use to run it 
automatically every time you change the window size, but I don't know 
about that.

HTH,

Tyler
> On 9/7/09, *ken* <gebser@mousecar.com <mailto:gebser@mousecar.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     "C-7 C-2 C-x f" will wrap at column 72.
>
>     ;put in your ~/.emacs to setup new emacs session to wrap at col 72
>     (setq-default fill-column 72)
>
>
>     --
>     War is a failure of the imagination.
>             --William Blake
>
>
>
>
>     On 09/07/2009 12:05 PM bar tomas wrote:
>     > Yes!  It does say 'Fill' on the mode line ('Org Fill' in fact
>     because
>     > I'm working with the org mode).
>     > How do I correct this?
>     > Many thanks
>     >
>     >
>
>     > On 9/7/09, *Allan Gottlieb* <gottlieb@nyu.edu
>     <mailto:gottlieb@nyu.edu> <mailto:gottlieb@nyu.edu
>     <mailto:gottlieb@nyu.edu>>>
>
>     > wrote:
>     >
>     >     At Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:19:30 +0200 bar tomas
>     <bartomas@gmail.com <mailto:bartomas@gmail.com>
>
>     >     <mailto:bartomas@gmail.com <mailto:bartomas@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >     > I think I explained my problem badly.
>     >     > My problem is that although my buffer occupies all the emacs
>     >     window, the
>     >     > lines don't wrap at the windows edge. They wrap quite a
>     distance
>     >     before (at
>     >     > about half the window). Is there a solution to this?
>     >
>     >
>     >     Perhaps you have auto-fill-mode enabled.  Do you see the word
>     >
>     >     "Fill" in the mode line?
>     >
>     >     allan
>     >
>     >
>     >