Re: true "word wrap"

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com> writes:

> This is also for viewing various text files edited by Mac/Windows
> programs that like to think that paragraphs and not lines are
> terminated by end of line characters.  Really, there is no fundamental
> reason why Emacs shouldn't support editing like this.

For text files, there is longlines.el.  It inserts newlines when
reading from disk and removes them again before writing.  You might
like refill.el (or maniac.el) together with it, then you don't have
to hit M-q.

Warning: I'm the author of longlines.el.
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