From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: "word processor" text files Date: 31 Jul 2006 09:56:31 -0000 Message-ID: <20060731095631.26900.qmail@brouhaha.com> Reply-To: Paul Rubin NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154356956 11613 80.91.229.2 (31 Jul 2006 14:42:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:42:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 31 16:42:33 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7YyG-00006D-7k for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:42:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7YyF-0000hp-RD for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:42:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G7VIs-00044U-Oa for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:47:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G7VIn-00040O-6h for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:47:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7VIn-00040G-1N for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:47:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.62.206.8] (helo=brouhaha.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G7VLQ-00053m-Jq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:49:56 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 26901 invoked by uid 1010); 31 Jul 2006 09:56:31 -0000 Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:42:05 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:15250 Archived-At: I wish there were a way to edit "word processor"-format text files in Emacs. I don't mean .doc or anything like that, just .txt files with no newlines except between paragraphs. The idea is the text flows automatically as you add stuff, or if you insert in the middle. Newline ends a paragraph. The actual goal is to AVOID using a word processor (right now I use OpenOffice for this type of file, but I'd rather use Emacs). The usual reason is that I want to write some text to paste into a web browser form. The browser wants to fill text itself, and any newlines in the input turn into incorrectly placed line breaks. Am I missing something?