More customising

[Dieter Britz]

My ancient Suse system's emacs wraps lines as I type over
the end, so that I get new lines without myself typing <RET>,
as soon as I type a space after the last word that goes too far.
My brand new Kubuntu's emacs does not. Can someone point me
at the key word in the customising settings for this, please?

[Loris Bennett]

Post by Dieter Britz
My ancient Suse system's emacs wraps lines as I type over
the end, so that I get new lines without myself typing <RET>,
as soon as I type a space after the last word that goes too far.
My brand new Kubuntu's emacs does not. Can someone point me
at the key word in the customising settings for this, please?

I think you need to look at auto-fill. You old emacs seems to have had
this set, so that you get automatic line breaks ("wrapping" would
actually imply that you don't get a line break, but the line is just
visually "wrapped" onto the next line. So in fact your new emacs rather
than your old emacs is wrapping, but you don't want it to).

HTH

Loris

[Julian Bradfield]

Post by Dieter Britz
My ancient Suse system's emacs wraps lines as I type over
the end, so that I get new lines without myself typing <RET>,
as soon as I type a space after the last word that goes too far.
My brand new Kubuntu's emacs does not. Can someone point me
at the key word in the customising settings for this, please?

I don't use customize, or FSFmacs, but the relevant mode is
auto-fill-mode, and a bit of exploring in my rather
old FSFmacs suggests customizing via
Emacs->Text->Text Mode Hook->turn-on-auto-fill

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Post by Dieter Britz
My ancient Suse system's emacs wraps lines as I type over
the end, so that I get new lines without myself typing <RET>,
as soon as I type a space after the last word that goes too far.
My brand new Kubuntu's emacs does not. Can someone point me
at the key word in the customising settings for this, please?

You should copy your old ~/.emacs to your new system.