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From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Filling a string?
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 01:42:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wpxyxse4.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87io9jl0u9.fsf@mbork.pl

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> so I want part of the buffer to have wrapped lines
> (preferably at word boundaries), and part to have
> not (like having toggle-truncate lines only for
> a region).

Can't you just enable/disable filling in the portions
where it is desired/undesired?

> , so my next bet is to have a filling function for
> a string (so that I can fill it before inserting
> into a buffer). Is there anything like that in Emacs
> or should I just use a temp buffer and the built-in
> filling functions?

Make a region and then `fill-region'!

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-17 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-17  7:06 Filling a string? Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-17  8:11 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-07-17  8:49   ` Vaidheeswaran C
2015-07-17 10:58     ` Tassilo Horn
2015-07-17 12:14       ` Tassilo Horn
2015-07-17 23:42 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.7037.1437116822.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-17  7:26 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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