Re: how to line-wrap?

[Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>]

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Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:
>
>> Yesterday I had to do some major surgery on my ".newsrc-dribble" as two
>> sites that I get an RSS feed from were online but timing out all the
>> time, and this was stopping me from starting gnus. I did the surgery by
>> renaming ".newsrc-dribble" and starting anew with a blank one. Once I
>> had doctored the old one by deleting the problematic RSS feeds from the
>> file, I re-instated it and started gnus with no problems. Except, now
>> *every* email that I am receiving is not line-wrapping at 68 characters
>> but is going to the window borders, and in some cases its going beyond
>> them!
>>
>> I have this in my .gnus file
>>
>> (add-hook 'message-mode-hook
>> (lambda ()
>>   (setq fill-column 68)
>>   (turn-on-auto-fill)))
>>
>> What else should I do please to regain sensible line-wrapping?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Sharon.
>
> I have no idea why messing with newsrc-dribble would affect this, but my
> guess is you may have changed the value of one of these variables:
>
> ‘gnus-treat-fill-article’
> ‘gnus-treat-fill-long-lines’
>
> Can you show us their value?
>
> The message-mode-hook would only affect the outgoing message you
> compose, not the display of received messages.
>
Thanks for this Eric.

The answers are -
gnus-treat-fill-article = nil
gnus-treat-fill-long-lines = (typep "text/plain")

Sharon.
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