format paragraph

format paragraph

[Hans Larsen]

Hello,

One of Ultraedits feature "reformat paragraph" makes it possible
to format lines to an configurable column width. At the moment I
don't know how to do something similar with emacs. Any idea?

Cheers
-Hans

Re: format paragraph

[Kai Großjohann]

Hans Larsen <larsen587@firemail.de> writes:

> One of Ultraedits feature "reformat paragraph" makes it possible
> to format lines to an configurable column width. At the moment I
> don't know how to do something similar with emacs. Any idea?

C-u C-x f 42 RET                set column
M-q                             fill

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Re: format paragraph

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hans Larsen <larsen587@firemail.de> wrote on Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:32:09 +0100:
> Hello,

> One of Ultraedits feature "reformat paragraph" makes it possible
> to format lines to a configurable column width. At the moment I
> don't know how to do something similar with emacs. Any idea?

M-q will do the "refilling", as emacs calls it.

To configure the column width, use, e.g. C-u 73 C-x f.

As for finding out about such things, here are a few hints for using
Emacs's help facilities:

C-h a  invokes "apropos", to which you then enter a string (actually a
regular expression) and you then get command names back that match the
string.

C-h c  followed by a key sequence (possibly with mouse clicks) gives you
the name of the associated command.

C-h i  enters the info system.  Spend a lot of time learning to use this
and learning the general layout of the Emacs info pages.  It's a good
investment.

Viel Spass!

> Cheers
> -Hans

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