Re: Text-Mode for a beginner

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>]

Am Dienstag, 30. Oktober 2007 04:29 schrieb John O'Connor:
> Apologies if my question is of insufficiently cosmic importance. I am
> trying to figure out how to make Emacs behave more like a modern editor
> in its handling of paragraphs. What I mean by that is that I want to be
> able to (as I do in, say, OpenOffice) type an entire paragraph without
> having to put a newline at the end of every line. I know that
> auto-fill-mode accomplishes this somewhat, but it has the unfortunate
> side effect of inserting newlines everywhere, and when I paste my text
> into OOo the line lengths will not conform to the width of the page.


call `mark-whole-buffer' and `unfill-region' before
copying.

Andreas Röhler
> I 
> could just learn to live with the poor word wrap in the fundamental
> mode, but then it's difficult to C-p or C-n through the paragraphs. Is
> there a modern-text-mode or something like that?

text-mode (?)
> Thanks very much for 
> your help.
>
> -Jack O'Connor
>
>
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