Re: How to go to next line on the screen instead of going to next line in the text?

[xz <zhang.xi.cn@gmail.com>]

On May 31, 12:34 am, Giorgos Keramidas <keram...@ceid.upatras.gr>
wrote:
> On Fri, 30 May 2008 18:09:41 -0700 (PDT), xz <zhang.xi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In emacs, if you hit the down arrow key, the cursor will go to next
> > line in the text, i.e., the part after the first next '\n'.
>
> > However, sometimes when the line is long and is wrapped into several
> > lines on the screen, I wanna move between the screen lines, instead of
> > the text lines, just like what happens when you hit the down arrow key
> > in gedit or the notepad in Windows.
>
> > How to do that?
>
Thank you for your reply

> Check out `longlines-mode'.  I think you'll like it :)

I think this is what I want.
But one more question, how to turn on this mode automatically every
time when I launch emacs?
Should I simply put the following line in the .emacs file? Or what
else should I do?

(longlines-mode)