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: longlines mode Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:21:49 +0300 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <87lkasl2n6.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <1190893211.329574.203070@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190907671 7432 80.91.229.12 (27 Sep 2007 15:41:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:41:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 27 17:41:07 2007 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 1IavTf-0000QD-Mf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:40:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IavTc-0003TH-7S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:40:32 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!feeder.erje.net!nuzba.szn.dk!news.szn.dk!pnx.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PZDuaWgL1/XLJIRwm+jo59U8ZFU= Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.235.244.135 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=0cLGC^E>B6G3j@n`X75YjCYSB=nbEKnkK5l7JOAVQ`jBL^MjGPhb63:>SPnN>P; W:54]Hf@iRnf7\:m2jC Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152421 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:47932 Archived-At: On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:40:11 -0700, weber wrote: > Hi folks. > I was just trying to use a scratch area on a tall and narrow window, > 30 characters wide, on the right side of emacs. Then i turned on > longlines-mode so my lines would be wrapped, and found out that are > not wrapped in the end of a window, but relative to the variable > fill-column. Which is easy to set `C-u 30 C-x f' :-) > So my question is: is there another mode i can use for wrapping lines > (soft wrap) that is set according to the current window size? I'm not a very prolific longlines-mode user. I mostly use it to edit blog posts and blog comments, where hard line breaks cause unnecessarily short lines in the output page/document. Have you checked if there's an option which configures longlines-mode to behave like this?