From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: xz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to go to next line on the screen instead of going to next line in the text? Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 09:35:49 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <0a9bfa85-9062-47db-9c28-d7f6933a72f2@e53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> References: <871w3j3ul8.fsf@kobe.laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212511269 5689 80.91.229.12 (3 Jun 2008 16:41:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:41:09 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 03 18:41:47 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K3ZZy-0007y6-2s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:41:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58382 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K3ZZB-0000aY-OV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:40:57 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!e53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 168.7.13.133 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1212510949 15849 127.0.0.1 (3 Jun 2008 16:35:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:35:49 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=168.7.13.133; posting-account=fxB97woAAABg6Wi3tmJV7LZi5ZS_5kQW User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008050509 Firefox/3.0b5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:159086 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:54440 Archived-At: On May 31, 12:34=A0am, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Fri, 30 May 2008 18:09:41 -0700 (PDT), xz wrote= : > > In emacs, if you hit the down arrow key, the cursor will go to next > > line in the text, i.e., the part after the first next '\n'. > > > However, sometimes when the line is long and is wrapped into several > > lines on the screen, I wanna move between the screen lines, instead of > > the text lines, just like what happens when you hit the down arrow key > > in gedit or the notepad in Windows. > > > How to do that? > Thank you for your reply > Check out `longlines-mode'. =A0I think you'll like it :) I think this is what I want. But one more question, how to turn on this mode automatically every time when I launch emacs? Should I simply put the following line in the .emacs file? Or what else should I do? (longlines-mode)