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authorLars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>2021-09-13 12:41:34 +0200
committerLars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>2021-09-13 12:41:34 +0200
commitacc575846d13cf6d925116edccb9f213f1adf1be (patch)
treec7bbec8554049bc67a729107e88b70197d3654dd
parent0dc630b35bba13e812736ccaf6d5154f6c8277b9 (diff)
downloademacs-acc575846d13cf6d925116edccb9f213f1adf1be.tar.gz
Mention how to disable auto-fill-mode in the auto-fill section
* doc/lispref/text.texi (Margins): Mention how to disable auto-fill-mode.
-rw-r--r--doc/lispref/text.texi7
-rw-r--r--etc/NEWS2
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/text.texi b/doc/lispref/text.texi
index 9e0401fffb9..f83ca97163b 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/text.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/text.texi
@@ -1802,7 +1802,12 @@ read, you should set @code{fill-column} to no more than 70. Otherwise
the line will be too long for people to read comfortably, and this can
make the text seem clumsy.
-The default value for @code{fill-column} is 70.
+The default value for @code{fill-column} is 70. To disable Auto Fill
+mode in a specific mode, you could say something like:
+
+@lisp
+(add-hook 'foo-mode-hook (lambda () (auto-fill-mode -1))
+@end lisp
@end defopt
@deffn Command set-left-margin from to margin
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 7d16bf08f38..da1ca697676 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -2964,6 +2964,7 @@ This is to keep the same behavior as Eshell.
The original key binding was 'M-s', which interfered with I-search,
since the latter uses 'M-s' as a prefix key of the search prefix map.
+---
** In 'f90-mode', the backslash character ('\') no longer escapes.
For about a decade, the backslash character has no longer had a
special escape syntax in Fortran F90. To get the old behavior back,
@@ -2971,6 +2972,7 @@ say something like:
(modify-syntax-entry ?\\ "\\" f90-mode-syntax-table)
++++
** Setting 'fill-column' to nil is obsolete.
This undocumented use of 'fill-column' is now obsolete. To disable
auto filling, turn off 'auto-fill-mode' instead.