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Re: Howto turn on longlines-mode in .emacs?


From: Harald Hanche-Olsen
Subject: Re: Howto turn on longlines-mode in .emacs?
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 10:54:04 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix)

+ Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com>:

> Yes, longlines-mode is great for some files

I would argue that with emacs 23 (and possibly earler), longlines-mode
is no longer great. Just turn off auto-fill-mode and (setq word-wrap t)
instead. This is much more robust, and doesn't interact badly with some
major modes the way longlines-mode does.

-- 
* Harald Hanche-Olsen     <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
  when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
  -- Bertrand Russell


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