On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 04:31:45PM +0400, rincewind wrote: > How do you normally type plain English text in emacs?
I normally use a keyboard :). > It appears that emacs either doesn't break lines at all (i.e., it > just wraps a line if it exceeds the screen width, disregarding > word boundaries), or inserts newlines when you run 'fill' command! > Or Fundamental is not a proper mode for exiting text (which mode I > need, then)? The proper mode for editing text is text-mode. If you give the extension ".txt" to your files then emacs automatically turns on the text mode. > > How can I make emacs automatically format paragraphs visually, > without breaking words and without inserting newlines? The "fill" functions do not break words but they do insert newlines. I think that what you looking for ("soft" breaks) is accomplished by the package "longlines.el". Have a look http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/longlines.el hth -- Charity in capitalism is like urinating to extinguish a forest fire. -- Neon Absentius absent a.in.cirle sdf period lonestar period org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs