From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: format paragraph Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:55:18 +0000 Organization: muc.de e.V. -- private internet access Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <6b3o4b.16.ln@acm.acm> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1047504297 4865 80.91.224.249 (12 Mar 2003 21:24:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:24:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 12 22:24:56 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18tDiZ-0001GI-00 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 22:24:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18tDj6-0000FC-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 16:25:28 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsfeed.r-kom.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!uni-erlangen.de!lmu.de!news.muc.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: acm.muc.de Original-X-Trace: marvin.muc.de 1047503430 80174 193.149.49.134 (12 Mar 2003 21:10:30 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news-admin@muc.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Mar 2003 21:10:30 GMT User-Agent: tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.35 (i686)) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111017 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7517 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7517 Hans Larsen 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 -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter (like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a").