auto-fill in mail headers

auto-fill in mail headers

[Kai Großjohann]

I have (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill), and this leads
to headers like this:

/----
| Subject: this is a long header which has many words, just to provide
| an example what happens
\----

Is it possible to make it so that Gnus (Emacs) _automatically_ adds
the space in the second line?  Auto-fill in the message body shouldn't
change, of course.

kai
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Re: auto-fill in mail headers

[Kevin Ryde]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
> I have (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill), and this leads
> to headers like this:
> 
> /----
> | Subject: this is a long header which has many words, just to provide
> | an example what happens
> \----
> 
> Is it possible to make it so that Gnus (Emacs) _automatically_ adds
> the space in the second line?  Auto-fill in the message body shouldn't
> change, of course.

An alternate approach, a bit pedestrian perhaps, is just to disable
auto fill in headers (but leave it as normal in the message body of
course).

        http://www.gnus.org/list-archives/ding/199912/msg00223.html

Re: auto-fill in mail headers

[Taso N. Devetzis]

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on a somewhat related but totally opposite note, has anyone done the
reverse?  i.e., enable auto-fill in the headers *only* (very useful
for abbrevs).

thanks,
/taso

Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> >
> > I have (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill), and this leads
> > to headers like this:
> > 
> > /----
> > | Subject: this is a long header which has many words, just to provide
> > | an example what happens
> > \----
> > 
> > Is it possible to make it so that Gnus (Emacs) _automatically_ adds
> > the space in the second line?  Auto-fill in the message body shouldn't
> > change, of course.
> 
> An alternate approach, a bit pedestrian perhaps, is just to disable
> auto fill in headers (but leave it as normal in the message body of
> course).
> 
>         http://www.gnus.org/list-archives/ding/199912/msg00223.html