[PLUG] Emacs: Setting Line Length for .txt Files

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, Rich Shepard wrote:

>   My emacs wraps lines of .txt files at column 72. However, sometimes (and
> all too often) it will wrap a line at column 46 or so and there's no way I
> can fill that line so it remains filled with I re-format the paragraph with
> M-q.

   Looking at the emacs customization I learned that C-x f changes the column
number beyond which the line wraps. This seems to be buffer-specific and
would need to be set for each buffer when a .txt file is loaded. Is there a
way to make the desired line wrap column the default?

Rich