From: Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>
Subject: Re: How do you normally type text in emacs?
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:28:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <roy-10A750.10284831072005@reader2.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dcigbh$kal$1@gavrilo.mtu.ru
In article <dcigbh$kal$1@gavrilo.mtu.ru>, rincewind <fake@not.real> wrote:
> How do you normally type plain English text in emacs?
> It appears that emacs either doesn't break lines at all (i.e., it just
> wraps a line if it exceeds the screen width, disregarding word
> boundaries), or inserts newlines when you run 'fill' command! Or
> Fundamental is not a proper mode for exiting text (which mode I need, then)?
>
> How can I make emacs automatically format paragraphs visually, without
> breaking words and without inserting newlines?
Try "M-X text-mode". You'll generally end up in text mode automatically if
you name your files with a ".txt" extension. It probably also want to turn
on auto-fill mode (M-X auto-fill-mode).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-31 14:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-31 12:31 How do you normally type text in emacs? rincewind
2005-07-31 14:28 ` Roy Smith [this message]
2005-07-31 14:55 ` Neon Absentius
2005-07-31 15:19 ` Björn Lindström
2005-07-31 15:54 ` Peter Dyballa
2005-07-31 17:36 ` Björn Lindström
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