How can I disable auto-fill mode in Emacs?

Question

Today I got my new PC (Windows 7, 32 bit) and installed Vincelt Goulets Emacs. The only other thing I did was updating Org-mode.

Now, I am stuck with auto-fill-mode on every time I start Emacs new, which I hate. I would like to turn auto-fill-mode off, for now and forever. I even deleted my .emacs file, but auto-fill-mode was still turned on.

The only solution that worked was (a) a nasty workaround or (b) always typing M-x auto-fill-mode every time I start Emacs anew.

Is there a solution?

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To be clear, the only thing the current .emacs file contains is: '(inhibit-startup-screen t)

Answer 1

Add to your .emacs,

(auto-fill-mode -1)

If there are hooks for specific modes, you will need to zap those as well. My suspicion is that you do not actually have auto-fill-mode on by default in all modes, but with the information you have supplied, at least this should be a starting point.

A reasonable safeguard would be to also disable auto-fill mode from `text-mode-hook':

(remove-hook 'text-mode-hook #'turn-on-auto-fill)

You may need something similar for other modes as well.

Answer 2

Assuming that he has not made fundamental changes, you have several paths:

You can just turn off the mode globally in your .emacs file:

(turn-off-auto-fill)
;; ...or (auto-fill-mode -1)

Since Emacs of that vintage also turns on auto-fill for text-mode, add:

(remove-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)

That should account for all the default places, but check the major mode hooks if you have other modes enabling this automatically.

Answer 3

If you'd like to keep it turned-on in most text-mode while disable auto-fill in specific modes, e.g. org-mode in my case, you could use the following:

;; turn on auto-fill for text-mode
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
;; turn off auto-fill for org-mode
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'turn-off-auto-fill)