From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: soft wrapping and line numbers Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:41:22 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <848ytsvyi5.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051714479 19024 80.91.224.249 (30 Apr 2003 14:54:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:54:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 30 16:54:37 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 19Asy9-0004t5-00 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:54:01 +0200 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 19AsqC-00035i-09 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:45:48 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de (134.91.35.216) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1051713836 12316809 134.91.35.216 (16 [73968]) In-Reply-To: (Eric Carlsen's message of "Tue, 29 Apr 2003 13:22:53 -0600") Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09002 (Oort Gnus v0.20) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:apHDnOON+Dqj9yK959Fy5wN4GHI= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112571 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:9069 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9069 Eric Carlsen writes: > I recently started using emacs and I was wondering if there is a way > to do some things. For one, is soft word wrapping implemented yet? By > this I mean that there are no newlines inserted in text but it wraps > lines on the screen without breaking up characters. Vim does it with > lbr (I'm not trying to flame, just give background) and I think it is > commonly done in the windows world. I have written longlines.el which I'm afraid is a bit of a kludge. But it might do what you need. It adds newlines into the buffer when the file is read from disk, and it removes those newlines again when the file is written back to disk. -- file-error; Data: (Opening input file no such file or directory ~/.signature)