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Re: word wrap |
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Sat, 05 Jul 2003 02:17:50 -0400 |
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K T Ligesh wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> How do I make emacs to wrap the text at the ends of the word rather than
> at the edge of the screen.. Auto-fill-mode seems to insert _REAL_ new
> lines into the paragraph, which is absolutely not the thing I want.. I
> just want the lines to _virtually_ wrapped at the word ends..
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated..
>
> thanks.
>
> --
> :: Ligesh :: http://ligesh.com :: http://lxlabs.com ::
I wish Emacs could do that, too. Unfortunately it uses newlines.
There are various ways to take them out. One is the longlines.el add-on. As
I understand it this takes out all the newlines except for the
end-of-paragraph newlines when you save.
In my own case, I just format the text like you see here (double-space for a
new paragraph) and use a macro to convert two newlines in a row to one
newline and one tab. Single newlines are deleted, making everything
longlines. I do it this way largely because my work goes out by e-mail and
I need longlines when I cut and paste the text. It also saves some editing
because I have a bad habit of hitting the shift-lock on the way over to the
tab and START PARAGRAPHS LIKE THIS.
--Rod
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- word wrap, K T Ligesh, 2003/07/04
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