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Kevin Rodgers wrote:

> Roodwriter@core.com wrote:
> 
>> I have a macro to convert the blocks to tabbed paragraphs and long-lines
>> when I'm done. This is because Emacs' hard carriage return method of line
>> breaking is not what newspapers want. No editor is going to want to
>> assemble lines by hand. Also it facilitates searching my old articles by
>> grep, which I do daily, since for many news stories I need background
>> material, or at least a small fact, like how to spell the copy machine
>> company's name.
> 
> Check out longlines.el: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/LongLines
> 
> 

Forgot about that one.

Also misspelled your name. Sorry. 

--Rod

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