[OS X Emacs] Cannot set Line wrapping > Wrap

[Doug Kramer]

Sorry, my last answer was before I saw David's reply.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:03 PM, David Reitter <david.reitter at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Oct 14, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Doug Kramer wrote:
> >
> > 2) Notice it's set to Options > Line wrapping > Break lines (Auto Fill)
> at 70
> > 3) Change it to Wrap
> > 4) Choose Line wrapping > Adopt as default
> > 5) Choose Options > Save options
> >    At this point I expect the setting to be saved,
> >    but the next two steps show it's not saved.
> >
> > 6) Close file
> > 7) Open file -- it's reset to "Break lines (Auto Fill) at 70"
>
> Did you turn off "Detect text wrap in text files"?  (This is a common
> source of confusion.)
>
>
Perhaps you mean "Detect line wrap in text files".

Yes, I didn't turn that off when I first tried it, because I want to detect
line wraps -- I just don't want to insert newlines.  (I see that menu item
executes "toggle-text-mode-auto-detect-wrap".)  If I turn that option on or
off from the menu, it doesn't seem to matter -- only "Break lines at 70"
seems to matter.

In Jeff's step 4 (below), I had hook for "smart-spacing-mode" and
"auto-detect-wrap shown".  I deleted "auto-detect-wrap" (don't know if I had
to), then had to reload the file to get the functionality I wanted.

   1) uncheck auto-detect wrap
>    2) check set-word-wrap
>    3) uncheck set-auto-fill
>    4) DEL any extra hooks that look like they might be wrapping or filling
> lines
>

This is all far too confusing for me.

My original question doesn't seem to be answered -- why don't my steps 4 and
5 to save the options actually save the options?

-Doug

Otherwise, you did the right things.  If it still doesn't work, we should
> investigate this as a bug.
>

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