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having fill-region, or fill-column, work with text-scale-mode

i'd like to be able to programmatically (re-)fill text in a buffer after scaling text with C-x +. i understand i could add a hook to text-scale-mode-hook, but if i call (frame-width) or (window-width) ...
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ruler-mode not following fill-column value

With ruler-mode enabled and using (setq fill-column 72), I still see the fill-column icon in ruler-mode at column 70. I want to customise fill-column globally or according to major mode. Can one do ...
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How can I keep windows from being shrunk past their fill-columns?

Typically I have two windows, left and right, with the left window (call it the "editing window") showing a buffer in a prog-mode or text-mode and the right window (call it the "...
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How to fill a string programmatically like fill-region in elisp?

Here is what I want: (fill-string ";; This is a long string to be inserted into a buffer somewhere. Okay that's it.") This should insert line breaks according to the fill-column. Something ...
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What is the mode for org's LOGBOOK editing window and how can one be created if it doesn't already exist?

I want to wrap the LOGBOOK editing window at column width I'm yet to decide. From another answer here I see need to set something along the lines of (add-hook 'some-logbook-mode-hook #'auto-fill-mode) ...
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How do I suppress messages in the echo area (e.g. `Fill column set to 80 (was 80)`)?

When I open a Python file I keep seeing Fill column set to 80 (was 80) message in the echo area. I know I have set it this limit , but I don't want to be keep reminded about it. Is it possible to ...
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Maintaining consistent visual fill column under `org-indent-mode`

How can one enable org-indent-mode (or otherwise indent content to Org headings) while still maintaining a consistent visual fill column?
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Automatically set `fill-column' based on flake8 setup

How can I automatically set fill-column based on flake8 configuration for python-mode buffers, specifically the max-line-length value in .flake8? Solutions that employs existing extensions are welcome....
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Different fill-column for comments than code in programming modes

I don't mind if the occasional code line runs long. For example, the Shopify ruby standard allows lines of 120. But I want comments to be restricted to the first 78 lines or so. Is there any way in ...
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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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How to display a (basic) column indicator? [duplicate]

Since fill-column-indicator is no longer actively maintained, how can I visualize the fill-column? The fill-column-indicator package was quite heavy and had compatibility issues with other packages. ...
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Display two vertical rules, at columns 79 and 87

Python code now often is limited either to 80 columns, or to 88 columns. fci-mode allows drawing a vertical rule at a single column, but not two. I'd like to do something very similar in appearance ...
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Per-mode value for `fill-column'

Emacs and I agree on many things. That's good. However, there is one thing we disagree on – the default value for fill-column for different major modes. In order to alleviate this, I added the ...
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Hard return to soft return of a .tex file

I have tons of LaTeX files with hard returns at column 80 like the test file below: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} Foo bar foobar Foo bar foobar Foo bar foobar Foo bar foobar Foo bar ...
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Add characters on each side of a block

I want to write a function which equally add "-" character on each sides of bold text. The future line should be no longer then fill-column Input: - <1900-01-01 Mon> *XX century* <1999-12-...
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Format help buffers to specific width

I'm helping a visually impaired user make viewing documentation in Emacs easier. He sets his font size such that he has about 40 columns of text in a full-screen frame with no splits (and he has ...
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Why is the default value of fill-column 70?

Is there a reason that the default value of fill-column is 70? In my experience, everyone who cares about the value of fill-column prefers a default value of 80.
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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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org-mode and file column indicator (fci-mode)

When using the fill-column-indicator package with org mode, I get wrong argument errors when exiting the source block editing window, issues with utf-8 character artefacts in source blocks exported to ...
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How to disable fill-column-indicator (fci) when it's outside the window?

*Edit* fci is no longer supported, emacs-27 supports this feature natively. The are various known bugs with the fill-column indicator, there is one well known bug that occurs when the window is too ...
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Change fill-column-indicator rule color immediately

How can I change the color of the fill-column-indicator and have the changes visible immediately? (defun my:change-fci-color (color) (setq fci-rule-color color) (fci-redraw-frame)) The previous ...
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Unpredictable fill-column behavior

I'm using Emacs (24.4+1-5) and org mode for writing prose, which means that I need some mechanism for line wrapping that just works, and preferably the same way each time. At the moment I'm using ...
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fill-column-indicator mode doesn't show a straight vertical line

OS windows7 64bit | GNU emacs 24.3.1
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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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Can I allow punctuation to run past fill-column?

In typography, there's a practice called 'protrusion' (or hanging punctuation) that allows certain symbols to hang off the end of the margin: I'd like to do the same thing for my text documents. Can ...
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