This buffer-local variable, if non-nil
, specifies a string of
text that appears at the beginning of normal text lines and should be
disregarded when filling them. Any line that fails to start with the
fill prefix is considered the start of a paragraph; so is any line
that starts with the fill prefix followed by additional whitespace.
Lines that start with the fill prefix but no additional whitespace are
ordinary text lines that can be filled together. The resulting filled
lines also start with the fill prefix.
The fill prefix follows the left margin whitespace, if any.
This buffer-local variable specifies the maximum width of filled lines. Its value should be an integer, which is a number of columns. All the filling, justification, and centering commands are affected by this variable, including Auto Fill mode (see Auto Filling).
As a practical matter, if you are writing text for other people to
read, you should set 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 fill-column
is 70. To disable Auto Fill
mode in a specific mode, you could say something like:
(add-hook 'foo-mode-hook (lambda () (auto-fill-mode -1))
This sets the left-margin
property on the text from from to
to to the value margin. If Auto Fill mode is enabled, this
command also refills the region to fit the new margin.
This sets the right-margin
property on the text from from
to to to the value margin. If Auto Fill mode is enabled,
this command also refills the region to fit the new margin.
This function returns the proper left margin value to use for filling
the text around point. The value is the sum of the left-margin
property of the character at the start of the current line (or zero if
none), and the value of the variable left-margin
.
This function returns the proper fill column value to use for filling
the text around point. The value is the value of the fill-column
variable, minus the value of the right-margin
property of the
character after point.
This function moves point to the left margin of the current line. The
column moved to is determined by calling the function
current-left-margin
. If the argument n is non-nil
,
move-to-left-margin
moves forward n−1 lines first.
If force is non-nil
, that says to fix the line’s
indentation if that doesn’t match the left margin value.
This function removes left margin indentation from the text between
from and to. The amount of indentation to delete is
determined by calling current-left-margin
. In no case does this
function delete non-whitespace. If from and to are omitted,
they default to the whole buffer.
This function adjusts the indentation at the beginning of the current
line to the value specified by the variable left-margin
. (That
may involve either inserting or deleting whitespace.) This function
is value of indent-line-function
in Paragraph-Indent Text mode.
This variable specifies the base left margin column. In Fundamental mode, RET indents to this column. This variable automatically becomes buffer-local when set in any fashion.
This variable gives major modes a way to specify not to break a line
at certain places. Its value should be a list of functions. Whenever
filling considers breaking the line at a certain place in the buffer,
it calls each of these functions with no arguments and with point
located at that place. If any of the functions returns
non-nil
, then the line won’t be broken there.