From: Andrew Rutherford <ajr@scripsi.ath.cx>
Subject: Re: Wordprocessor behaviour
Date: 23 Jun 2003 23:01:15 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87smq19cdg.fsf@scripsi.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bd6kvi$duh$1@news.cybercity.dk
Daniel Andersen <dani_ande@yahoo.dk> writes:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm quite new to emacs and I have a question which has bothered me a
> long time. I'm writing a book and started using emacs insteed of Word,
> which I got pretty much tired of, but there is one thing which annoyes
> me; when I have written a long sentense and it is wrapped to many
> lines on the screen, then when I want to go on "screen-line" up in the
> same sentence, it jumps to the previous paragraph insteed, which means
> that I have to move the cursor along the line insteed to get upwards.
>
> I have searched for information on this but couldn't find any myself;
> I know that one can have emacs break long lines itself, but I don't
> want it to do so...
Why not? The tools you would use beside emacs to write a book treat
line-breaks as white space. There's no reason for long lines: they
don't fit on a terminal and they're hard to edit. If you have a need
for them in the end, there are probably modes doing what sed or tr do.
--
Andrew Rutherford
ajrutherford@mail.ru
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-23 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-23 10:32 Wordprocessor behaviour Daniel Andersen
2003-06-23 13:01 ` Andrew Rutherford [this message]
2003-06-23 13:44 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-23 16:22 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-06-25 19:34 ` Daniel Andersen
2003-06-23 19:30 ` Roodwriter
2003-06-23 20:09 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-23 20:57 ` Roodwriter
2003-06-24 7:05 ` Kai Großjohann
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