Re: word wrapping in a long document ?!?

[Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>]

On 2010-05-02 18:36 +0100, William Case wrote:
> Hi;
>
> A question born out of frustration.  I have searched the info manual
> etc.  Probably, mis-reading or mis-seeing.
>
> I have a long text document that I have opened in emacs. It is almost
> completely filled with fringe indicators showing no word wrapping.  I
> have word-wrapping mode toggled on.  I can make sentences wrap for a
> paragraph by entering return at the end of each paragraph.
>
> Is there a command that will travel through the entire document and add
> wrapping (remove fringe indicators) wherever needed.

,----[ C-h f fill-region RET ]
| fill-region is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `fill.el'.
| 
| It is bound to <menu-bar> <edit> <fill>.
| 
| (fill-region FROM TO &optional JUSTIFY NOSQUEEZE TO-EOP)
| 
| Fill each of the paragraphs in the region.
| A prefix arg means justify as well.
| Ordinarily the variable `fill-column' controls the width.
| 
| Noninteractively, the third argument JUSTIFY specifies which
| kind of justification to do: `full', `left', `right', `center',
| or `none' (equivalent to nil).  A value of t means handle each
| paragraph as specified by its text properties.
| 
| The fourth arg NOSQUEEZE non-nil means to leave whitespace other
| than line breaks untouched, and fifth arg TO-EOP non-nil means
| to keep filling to the end of the paragraph (or next hard newline,
| if variable `use-hard-newlines' is on).
| 
| Return the fill-prefix used for filling the last paragraph.
| 
| If `sentence-end-double-space' is non-nil, then period followed by one
| space does not end a sentence, so don't break a line there.
| 
| [back]
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Leo