From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?q?R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Text-Mode for a beginner Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:02:52 +0100 Message-ID: <200710301302.53190.andreas.roehler@online.de> References: <4726A52B.6070705@yale.edu> 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 1193745726 6685 80.91.229.12 (30 Oct 2007 12:02:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:02:06 +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 Oct 30 13:02:08 2007 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 1ImpnK-0000J6-0p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:02:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ImpnA-000203-KW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:01:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Impmt-0001xo-Cm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:01:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Impmr-0001vP-Ut for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:01:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Impmr-0001vM-Pp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:01:37 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.188]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Impmr-0008K5-75 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:01:37 -0400 Original-Received: from noname (p54BE9177.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.190.145.119]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu4) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0ML21M-1Impmp050D-0001xL; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:01:35 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: <4726A52B.6070705@yale.edu> Content-Disposition: inline X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19GtHA7R2OukmAXL4IpYhbSoQEV2K1R/bqC+Qs KvcTyBu38nA5LpsETNo76grV3r+S8587eF9eaGwXfGqVZUsfOq w5wdLq1HDE/TIh6isWJbQ== X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:48919 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 R=F6hler > I=20 > 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=20 > your help. > > -Jack O'Connor > > > _______________________________________________ > help-gnu-emacs mailing list > help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs