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I have configured evolution to use Emacs for me to edit my replies to emails I receive. However, I need to limit my line length to around 72 characters to avoid the odd-ball line wrapping by the mailer (MicroSoft EWS).

I currently have the following line in my .emacs:

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist (quote("/tmp/evo*\\'" . text-mode))

So that the files are put in text-mode. However, I would also like to invoke ruler-mode automatically instead of having to do it manually.

But I cannot seem to figure this one out. Is there a text hook I can add a custom function on to deal with this?

(GNU Emacs 24.5.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 and GNU Emacs 24.3.1 on private red-hat like distro)

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There is a hook for text-mode, and it's called text-mode-hook. You can use it like so:

(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'ruler-mode)

You might also be interested in auto-fill-mode, which you can set to hard-wrap your lines at 72 automatically. See the manual for details. The short version is you set the fill column to 72, turn on auto-fill-mode, and then whenever you add text beyond column 72 Emacs will insert a new line at the appropriate place for you. You can also refill a paragraph if the line lengths got disrupted when you made changes somewhere in the middle with M-q.

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  • Okay, I really only need to invoke this when the buffer is /tmp/evo* name, so I see a new private defun in my future. Thanks this is helpful. – FoggyKernel Apr 18 '18 at 18:06

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