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* Fullscreen text editor behavior
@ 2007-10-02 16:21 theongoingrealityshow
  2007-10-02 21:22 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
  2007-10-06 17:21 ` Dieter Wilhelm
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: theongoingrealityshow @ 2007-10-02 16:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

I've been trying to get emacs to mimic the popular fullscreen text
editors like writeroom/darkroom etc. I found this

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1235260

but it does not work well with longlines.el and it inserts hard line
breaks otherwise, can anyone recommend a way to get a 60 character
column of text down the center of my screen?

I coul djust use jdarkroom..but I'd like to see if I can do it in
emacs.

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* Re: Fullscreen text editor behavior
  2007-10-02 16:21 Fullscreen text editor behavior theongoingrealityshow
@ 2007-10-02 21:22 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
  2007-10-06 17:21 ` Dieter Wilhelm
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Lennart Borgman (gmail) @ 2007-10-02 21:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: theongoingrealityshow; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs

theongoingrealityshow@gmail.com wrote:
> I've been trying to get emacs to mimic the popular fullscreen text
> editors like writeroom/darkroom etc. I found this
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1235260
> 
> but it does not work well with longlines.el and it inserts hard line
> breaks otherwise, can anyone recommend a way to get a 60 character
> column of text down the center of my screen?
> 
> I coul djust use jdarkroom..but I'd like to see if I can do it in
> emacs.

Have you tried longlines-mode and left-margin-width?

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* Re: Fullscreen text editor behavior
  2007-10-02 16:21 Fullscreen text editor behavior theongoingrealityshow
  2007-10-02 21:22 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
@ 2007-10-06 17:21 ` Dieter Wilhelm
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Dieter Wilhelm @ 2007-10-06 17:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: theongoingrealityshow; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs

theongoingrealityshow@gmail.com writes:

> I've been trying to get emacs to mimic the popular fullscreen text
> editors like writeroom/darkroom etc. I found this
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1235260
>
> but it does not work well with longlines.el and it inserts hard line
> breaks otherwise, can anyone recommend a way to get a 60 character
> column of text down the center of my screen?

Nobody can argue about style and taste, but to be honest what you want
is not a minimalist way but grossly waste full, sorry that is my
opinion so far, if I'm missing something please explain it to me.

Well, I'd just use auto-fill-mode (the text is filled within 70 chars,
but this is customisable), type C-x 3 (and possible use follow-mode,
with the added advantage of having even more usable screen estate for
the same text).

-- 
    Best wishes

    H. Dieter Wilhelm
    Darmstadt, Germany

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