From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neon Absentius Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How do you normally type text in emacs? Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:55:37 +0000 Message-ID: <20050731145537.GA4606@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122822620 31162 80.91.229.2 (31 Jul 2005 15:10:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 15:10:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 31 17:09:59 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DzFRX-00020x-Ss for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:09:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DzFU8-000868-Qw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 11:12:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DzFJV-0006hq-9p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 11:01:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DzFJ9-0006VS-QF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 11:00:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DzFJ9-0006VH-JU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 11:00:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.94.73.21] (helo=sdf.lonestar.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DzFQi-0000zz-2u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 11:08:44 -0400 Original-Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (IDENT:absent@otaku.freeshell.org [192.94.73.2]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6VEtb4P018609 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:55:37 GMT Original-Received: (from absent@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.13.1/8.12.8/Submit) id j6VEtbud014705 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 14:55:37 GMT Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Followup-To: Neon Absentius , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:28314 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28314 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 -- 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