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Set column width for visual lines in Emacs

Is there an equivalent to the fill-column variable for the "Wrap" mode (visual-line-mode) in Emacs? If not, how could I set a limit on the length of visual lines when the window/frame of the buffer is wider ?

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Brian Z Avatar asked Dec 23 '12 06:12

Brian Z


2 Answers

In response to this question I created a minor mode called window-margin that accomplishes what @Stefan suggested in his answer.

Turn on window-margin-mode with:

(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-window-margin-mode)

The way you can still do it without installing window-margin is to use the longlines-mode that ships with Emacs, but is being phased out since there are some problems with longlines-mode, but here's the old way to do it if you want:

Turn on longlines-mode with something like:

(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'longlines-mode)

which wraps text at the fill-column.

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aculich Avatar answered Oct 16 '22 02:10

aculich


longlines-mode has been removed. For visual-line-mode, the simplest way is to make the window as narrow as you want it to be. You can do that with C-x 3 and then adjusting the size of the window. Or you can set a wide margin or wide fringes.

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Stefan Avatar answered Oct 16 '22 02:10

Stefan