[OS X Emacs] turn-on-auto-fill not working

[Patrick May]

On 27 Feb 2009, at 20:06, David Reitter wrote:
> On 27 Feb 2009, at 19:40, Patrick May wrote:
>> 	I added the calls to add-hook and set-fill-column to ~/Library/ 
>> Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/Preferences.el and restarted, but they  
>> haven't taken effect.  Is there something else I have to set?
>
> Hmm, precisely this works for me just fine!
> Did you check the value of text-mode-hook?
> Perhaps the auto wrap detection function is coming after your auto- 
> fill-mode call, so it'll override.  Just a guess...

	text-mode-hook is (turn-on-auto-fill smart-spacing-mode auto-detect- 
wrap).

	fill-column is 70, even though I explicitly set it to 72 in  
Preferences.el.

	Very confusing.

Thanks,

Patrick