Re: [AUCTeX] fill-column settings

[Alan E. Davis]

For what it's worth.  This bugged me too.  I have been doing the
following for the past 15 years.  Control backslash is much easier to
deal with.  It's become almost automatic, and it certainly doesn't
cost any time.

(global-set-key "\C-\\" 'fill-paragraph)

Alan D

On Nov 15, 2007 9:54 AM, Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> wrote:
> * Geoffrey Smith (2007-11-15) writes:
>
> > Thank you for the reply.  The problem arises specifically when I am
> > editing a paragraph that I have already typed.  For example, if the
> > first line of my paragraph takes up 118 spaces, and I insert another
> > word into it, such as "Stallman," the first line of the paragraph
> > does not wrap.  The first line of the paragraph will now be 126
> > long, even though the fill-column width is set to 120, and even if
> > word-wrapping is enabled.
>
> The advantage of this behavior is that the paragraph does not jitter
> all the time while you are typing.
>
> > To correctly format the paragraph, after making my changes, I have
> > been hitting M-q.  The command M-q wraps each line of the paragraph
> > to 120.  I am hoping to not have to use M-q all the time.
>
> Then use Refill mode as described in the Emacs manual.
>
> --
> Ralf
>
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