How can I disable auto-fill mode in emacs?

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Henrik picture Henrik · Mar 26, 2012 · Viewed 13k times · Source

Today I got my new PC (win 7, 32 bit) and installed Vincelt Goulets Emacs. The only other thing I did was updating org-mode.

Now, I am stuck with auto-fill-mode on every time I start emacs new, which I hate. I would like to turn auto-fill-mode off, for now and forever. I even deleted my .emacs file but auto-fill-mode was still turned on.

The only solution that worked was (a) a nasty workaround or (b) always typing M-x auto-fill-mode everytime I start emacs anew.

I would be really happy to hear any solutions.

To be clear, the only thing the current .emacs file contains is: '(inhibit-startup-screen t)

Answer

tripleee picture tripleee · Mar 26, 2012

Add to your .emacs,

(auto-fill-mode -1)

If there are hooks for specific modes, you will need to zap those as well. My suspicion is that you do not actually have auto-fill-mode on by default in all modes, but with the information you have supplied, at least this should be a starting point.

A reasonable safeguard would be to also disable auto-fill mode from `text-mode-hook':

(remove-hook 'text-mode-hook #'turn-on-auto-fill)

You may need something similar for other modes as well.

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