On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:09:39AM +0800, Steven Woody wrote: > >> 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? >
Probably what you mean by "wrap". ,----[ longlines.el ] | ;; Some text editors save text files with long lines, and they | ;; automatically break these lines at whitespace, without actually | ;; inserting any newline characters. When doing `M-q' in Emacs, you | ;; are inserting newline characters. Longlines mode provides a file | ;; format which wraps the long lines when reading a file and unwraps | ;; the lines when saving the file. It can also wrap and unwrap | ;; automatically as editing takes place. `---- This is helpfull for example for searching for phrases acros lines, for using emacs to edit wiki pages and probably for other reasons that I can't think of right now. > > "longlines.el". Have a look > > > > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/longlines.el -- 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