From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to go to next line on the screen instead of going to next line in the text? Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 08:34:27 +0300 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <871w3j3ul8.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212212475 20428 80.91.229.12 (31 May 2008 05:41:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 05:41:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 31 07:41:57 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K2Jqm-00054h-JP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 May 2008 07:41:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50019 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K2Jq0-0001nW-Uh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 May 2008 01:41:08 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.net.uni-c.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fR/DRPdtkcpYStZ3jv6JOBpUuos= Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 77.49.113.17 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=[61=CDTGDLmMMDg2]64EMfYSB=nbEKnkk9KI=c`M<`]kL^MjgbH?lJH1TkjlFF1mEcKm7DjOP_9md>JHme Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:159018 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:54380 Archived-At: On Fri, 30 May 2008 18:09:41 -0700 (PDT), xz wrote: > In emacs, if you hit the down arrow key, the cursor will go to next > line in the text, i.e., the part after the first next '\n'. > > However, sometimes when the line is long and is wrapped into several > lines on the screen, I wanna move between the screen lines, instead of > the text lines, just like what happens when you hit the down arrow key > in gedit or the notepad in Windows. > > How to do that? Check out `longlines-mode'. I think you'll like it :)