Neon Absentius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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
i can only see two possibilities, wrap the text or 'newline' it. is the "soft break" the 3rd one? what is it? > "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 > > -- steven woody (id: narke) Angelica Bell: What happens to us when we die? Virginia Woolf: ... We return to the place we came from. Angelica Bell: I don't remember where I came from. Virginia Woolf: Neither do I. - The Hours (2002) _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs