Recently I discovered emacs as a text editor for my latex documents. So far, I am excited with how powerful the editor is. However, I have a problem with line wrapping.
More precisely, in the option menu I choose line wrapping in this buffer --> word wrap. After that, I choose save options, but when I reopen my tex file, line wrapping is back to the default setting.
So, my question is how can I set word wrap as my default wrapping option for all my documents?
Thanks in advance
As you noticed, the menu entry says "Line Wrapping in This Buffer" so this is not something that is saved by "Save Options".
To enable visual-line-mode in all your latex documents, add the following in your init file (~/.emacs or ~/.emacs.d/init.el):
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook #'visual-line-mode)
This ensures the function visual-line-mode (aka "word wrap") is called for each buffer that is put in LaTeX-mode (assuming you're using AUCTeX).
More information about the hook mechanism can be found in the emacs manual.
JeanPierre's answer will work fine if you want to use different word wrapping per type of document.
If you want all your documents word-wrapped, use the following:
(global-visual-line-mode t)
in your ~/.emacs or ~/.emacs.d/init.el file.
You can customize that value via the menus as well, by going to "Options->Customize Emacs->All Settings Matching..." and searching for "visual."
This only worked for me in my .emacs if the mode was not capitalized and the # was omitted, like this:
(add-hook 'latex-mode-hook 'visual-line-mode)
