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From: Corey Wells <asdf@fdsa.net>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: long lines in followups
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:49:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87boakbtv2.fsf@darkstar.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84fvzxqy57.fsf@his.org>

Tiu <putr@his.org> writes:

> So the problem is I wanna respect a 72 width for lines both posting
> and following-up to others. Tried various snippets like
> ...
> with no success.

FILL-CITED-ARTICLE will only work when an article is being displayed,
not when being replied to. To word wrap when composing, try the key
combination M-q, which is bound by default to the function
FILL-PARAGRAPH. It works in every mode, not just Gnus. It can fill
regions and also fixes quote marks for you.

You can customize the desired width with the "fill-column" variable.

> Another question, I see ther's control and meta keys but what's the
> sequence to "W w" and the likes?

There are no modifiers for these. You just type the letters when viewing
an article, like in vi. Note the case sensitivity: you'd press Shift+w
w.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-15 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-15  0:56 Tiu
2013-03-15 14:49 ` Corey Wells [this message]
2013-03-15 16:10   ` Tiu
2013-03-15 16:23     ` Tiu
2013-03-15 21:01     ` Corey Wells

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