Next: Sorting, Previous: Adaptive Fill, Up: Text [Contents][Index]

### 31.14 Auto Filling

Auto Fill mode is a minor mode that fills lines automatically as text is inserted. This section describes the hook used by Auto Fill mode. For a description of functions that you can call explicitly to fill and justify existing text, see Filling.

Auto Fill mode also enables the functions that change the margins and justification style to refill portions of the text. See Margins.

Variable: auto-fill-function

  The value of this buffer-local variable should be a function (of no arguments) to be called after self-inserting a character from the table `auto-fill-chars`. It may be `nil`, in which case nothing special is done in that case.

  The value of `auto-fill-function` is `do-auto-fill` when Auto-Fill mode is enabled. That is a function whose sole purpose is to implement the usual strategy for breaking a line.

Variable: normal-auto-fill-function

  This variable specifies the function to use for `auto-fill-function`, if and when Auto Fill is turned on. Major modes can set buffer-local values for this variable to alter how Auto Fill works.

Variable: auto-fill-chars

  A char table of characters which invoke `auto-fill-function` when self-inserted—space and newline in most language environments. They have an entry `t` in the table.