Re: How do you normally type text in emacs?

[Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org>]

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 
"longlines.el". Have a look

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/longlines.el

hth

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