rincewind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How do you normally type plain English text in emacs?
The same way I type plain Swedish. ;-)
> How can I make emacs automatically format paragraphs visually, without
> breaking words and without inserting newlines?
Files with an extension of .txt automatically gets the text-mode
treatment. Apart from what it does by default, here are some settings I
like to set:
(defun set-fill-mode-column ()
(setq fill-column 72)
(turn-on-auto-fill))
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(set-fill-mode-column)
(flyspell-mode)))
This turns on automatic wrapping at 72 columns, and turns on on-the-fly
spell checking.
For the spell checking to work as I want, this is what I do:
(setq ispell-program-name "aspell")
(setq-default ispell-local-dictionary "british")
(require 'ispell)
(global-set-key "\C-csf" (lambda () (interactive)
(flyspell-mode)))
(global-set-key "\C-csb" (lambda () (interactive)
(ispell-change-dictionary "british")))
(global-set-key "\C-css" (lambda () (interactive)
(ispell-change-dictionary "svenska")))
Good luck.
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