How to stop mu4e from inserting line breaks?

Question

When I write a long line while composing a mail in mu4e, the lines are truncated for viewing (toggle-truncate-lines), but as soon as I hit Enter fixed line breaks (column width seems to be 70 or something) are introduced.

How can I stop mu4e from introducing these line breaks?

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 06 '18 at 16:51

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This will suffice in emacs nowadays:

(add-hook 'mu4e-compose-mode-hook 'turn-off-auto-fill)

answered Apr 06 '18 at 16:51

ctietze

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I like to combine this with (add-hook 'mu4e-compose-mode-hook 'visual-line-mode) to have 'soft' line wrapping without actual newlines, but ensuting that the text stays inside my frame. – AstroFloyd May 20 '19 at 16:47

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 04 '14 at 13:26

You can turn off auto-fill-mode in the mu4e message buffer. You can do so automatically by adding a function to the mu4e-compose-mode-hook:

(defun no-auto-fill ()
  "Turn off auto-fill-mode."
  (auto-fill-mode -1))

(add-hook 'mu4e-compose-mode-hook #'no-auto-fill)

How to stop mu4e from inserting line breaks?

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