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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).