Questions tagged [auto-fill-mode]
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Why is auto-fill-mode in sh-mode not always putting a space after the leading '#' comment character?
I'm trying to find why the auto-fill-mode of a sh-mode buffer (with "# " as comment) sometimes does and sometimes does not put a space character after the leading '#' comment. As a secondary ...
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Org mode: Turn off auto-fill altogether?
I'd like to turn auto-fill in org-mode. I see that it can be done on a per-file basis, this way, but I'd like to do it altogether.
This answer describes that by default, normal-auto-fill-function is ...
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Make Emacs fill in text up to 80 columns
I'm using Emacs-28.2 (9.0) on MacOS Sonoma 14.3 and Emacs 26.1-10 on RedHat-8.8. In both cases I have the same config with the following setting:
(setq fill-column 79)
So I was expecting that when I ...
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turn off auto-fill in org tables?
I have (setq-default auto-fill-function 'do-auto-fill) in my config file, and I'm noticing that in org mode, auto-fill/wrapping occurs even within (wide) tables, which I don't like.
I confirmed that ...
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How do I stop lsp-mode from re-indenting my comments after a newline
I just installed lsp-mode for use with C++. It's reformatting my comments as I type. For example, if I have a doxygen comment like this:
/// Blah blah blah ... blah blah the end. [cursor here]
///
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How can I run auto-fill before each save in the complete buffer?
When I have a line greater than 80 columns and press enter at the end of the line it breaks the line. So in order to break the line I had to go to end of the long line and press enter.
Instead could ...
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How to enter newline in refill-mode
If I try to split up a paragraph with refill-mode enabled, it fills
immediately after, effectively cancelling out the entered newline.
Say I have this paragraph (with | as the cursor):
Pellentesque ...
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Set auto-fill in markdown mode, but exclude code block headers
I want to use auto-fill-mode in Markdown files. By default, it works fine, with one exception. I'm using the RMarkdown variant of markdown. This requires that code block headers remain on one line. ...
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(Sudden) Weird behavior of M-q in auctex
I very much enjoying using the auto fill functionality that the key binding M-q provides. However, starting recently, I am experiencing a small (but annoying) change in its behavior when in LaTeX mode....
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How to set automatic indentation to move past numbers on first line?
I'm using auto-fill-mode with indented-text-mode to write numbered lists. I'm trying to figure out how to persuade the automatic indentation to move past an item number on the first line. I'm ...
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fill-paragraph does not honor fill-column
C-h v fill-column gives me 80.
Pasting the lorem ipsum text in *scratch* (lines longer than 80) then going M-x fill-paragraph fills around column 66.
The same in c-mode. In this mode, comment wraps ...
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auto-fill-mode without automatic indentation
Is it possible to prevent auto-fill-mode from automatically indenting new lines according to the previous? I would like new lines to begin at column 0 regardless of the previous line's indentation.
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Auto fill of # style comments in Emacs python-mode not working
My expectation is that, like for comments in other language modes besides python, I could write a long comment, say 150 chars, and it would automatically fill, i.e., newline and indent with comment ...
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How to avoid annoying `auto-fill` behaviour in `c-mode` comment?
Recently I write quite a lot comments for c/c++ files. I use auto-fill-mode for comment auto format. But I found a quite annoying problem: whenever I input SPC at the end of a comment line, the cursor ...
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ES6 imports auto suggestion
I'm new to emacs and trying to setup emacs for ES6/React developement. I would like to have auto suggestions for es6 imports like lodash similar to vscode (as shown in screenshot). Is there a way to ...
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Python Documentation String Indent In Auto-Fill Mode (Emacs 26.2)
I've noticed a peculiar behavior when using auto-fill-mode editing Python code. For example if I start typing the following (fill-column is set to 79):
def some_function(keyword_argument0, ...
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Org-mode Auto-Fill-Mode
Whenever I open an org file, I have to activate auto-fill-mode and go through every signle line that I need to read and press RET to get a filled paragraph. Is there any way to globally set auto-fill-...
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Why does Emacs fill-paragraph corrupt this paragraph layout?
To reproduce what appears to be a bug that I'm encountering, create a new buffer with Emacs 26.1 (Fundamental mode is fine), and paste the following text in:
Without message passing to worry about, ...
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What is the difference between refill-mode and auto-fill-mode?
I tried to read the documentation, but in practice, I could not tell the difference. I feel they are doing the same thing. I can turn both modes on, but I am not sure in what circumstance I need to do ...
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Auto line break in a specified window
I copy content to *.org file, but it does not break lines (fill) automatically.
It's a very long sentence.
How could I enable it to fill automatically?
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Problems trying to turn on auto-fill in a directory local way
I am inexperienced in Emacs and very new to directory-local variables, so please forgive any obvious things I may be missing.
I am trying to have auto-fill mode activated for all the files in a ...
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org-mode, auto new line at 80th column? [duplicate]
When I'm writing in org-mode I want it to automatically handle the creation of new lines similar to MS Word.
Can anyone recommend an .emacs config that will only apply to org-mode?
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Turn on auto-fill-mode when editing a commit message with Magit?
I have tried:
(add-hook 'git-commit-mode-hook '(lambda ()
(setq fill-column 72)
(turn-on-auto-fill)))
In both cases, auto-fill-...
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I keep accidentally turning on fill mode; how am I doing this, and how do I undo it?
I must be hitting some combination of shortcut keys, because my Emacs keeps on switching all of its buffers to the minor mode 'fill'.
It's trivial to turn the mode off on each buffer individually, ...
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Prevent hooks from parent mode in derived mode
I have:
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
but in lisp/nxml/nxml-mode.el:
(define-derived-mode nxml-mode text-mode "nXML"
All XML files is opened with auto-fill-mode. That is ...
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Prevent fill-paragraph from wrapping past horizontal rules
Say I have the following document:
Sir Bedevere
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Well, now, uh, Lancelot, Galahad, and I, wait until nightfall, and then leap out of the rabbit, taking the French by surprise - not only ...
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Strategy for proper version control of "auto-filled" text files
I like auto-fill-mode a lot because it makes text fit into my screen even when I have two buffers side-by-side.
My problem is that a small wording change may trigger auto-fill to reformat a whole ...
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auto-fill-mode fails in comment with empty second line
Consider the following comments:
;; This is the first line of a comment.
;;
;; This is the second line, which begins a paragraph. If I have
;;auto-fill-mode enabled, I lose the leading space!
;; ...
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Separate fill-column value for org-mode
I've set fill-column value to be 80. But, especially for org-mode I want a bit higher fill-column value. Is it possible for org-mode to have a separate fill-column value of say 100?
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How to have fill-paragraph/fill-region break the line after a period?
I'm having trouble getting Emacs to properly fill a section of text when the last word of a suitable line ends with a period. Emacs seems to think that words separated by a period (and space) are ...
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Enabling auto-fill-mode only when document already filled
I have turn-on-auto-fill as part of my text-mode-hook. This works great for new documents, but when I open a buffer that is not filled with hard breaks I rarely want to start doing so to a single ...
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Emacs auto fill on period
How can I tweak Emacs auto-fill to fill when a period is inserted?
For example, with a (setq fill-column 10) the following will auto-fill when I press the space after "fill".
;; good fill
;; good
;;...
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Allow auto-fill to break words
By default, auto-fill will only break a line at a whitespace character. Usually this is what you want. However, I'm writing a major mode for editing data files (DNA sequences) that contain long lines ...
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Autofill insert a special string before returning
I use autofill in org mode to return automatically after 80 characters, the thing is that when exporting to html newlines aren't automatically added.
So I would like to know if it is possible to tell ...
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80 columns with autofill-mode doesn't return automatically
I have set autofill to 80 with C-x f and autofill-mode is enabled (I see Fill in the modeline), but it doesn't return automatically after 80 characters.
How can I make it works ?
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Fill-column conflicts with YASnippet [Examples in gif]
I use fill-column in my dot-Emacs. And I have the following setting:
(turn-on-auto-fill)
(set-fill-column 60)
The result looks like this:
Every time when the input exceeds columnnumber 60, it will ...
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Fill is not working in org-mode?
While in org-mode I've tried calling fill-paragraph directly. I've tried using auto-fill-mode and refill-mode. I've tried org-fill-paragraph. The fill-column is set appropriately. None of them ...
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auto-fill and auto-hscroll interferes, causing unnecessary horizontal scrolling
When both auto-fill-mode and auto-hscroll-mode are enabled, I often end up with a window that is horizontally scrolled, even though the entire content of the window should fit into an unscrolled ...
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How realign existing contents of buffer on column-width?
I added the following settings to my dot-Emacs:
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook
(lambda() (set-fill-column 80)))
When I'm typing sentences in an ...
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Simple fill-sentence function
I am new to emacs and would like to make a simple function to automate a series of commands I use repeatedly.
In auto-fill-mode after I edit the text I often need to re-wrap the lines. (I am writing ...
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Emacs adding comment char when using auto-fill-wrap
I'm pretty new to emacs, so this might be a stupid question but
I have auto word wrap enabled like so:
(setq-default auto-fill-function 'do-auto-fill)
But when I try to use it in C files, It ...
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How to delete word in next line with evil-mode?
I use evil-mode (from spacemacs) and I get a strange behaviour which I'm not sure if it is right or a bug. If I delete words (with dw, i think it calls evil-delete), it works until I arrive at the ...
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