Writing in Org Mode - line wrap and tables

Writing in Org Mode - line wrap and tables

[Graham Smith]

I am really enjoying Org Mode / Emacs but find the line wrap issue a
bit irritating and wondering if I am missing an obvious solution.

When I am just writing I use longlines mode, which is fine, but I also
use a lot of tables, and the tables feature is great, but tables wrap
unusably when longlines mode is enabled, which is OK when I don't need
to refer to them, but difficult when I do.

So, at the moment, I am toggling longlines mode off and on every few
seconds/minutes to let me write.

Is there a better way of dealing with this?

Many thanks,

Graham

Re: Writing in Org Mode - line wrap and tables

[Eric Schulte]

"Graham Smith" <myotisone@gmail.com> writes:

> I am really enjoying Org Mode / Emacs but find the line wrap issue a
> bit irritating and wondering if I am missing an obvious solution.
>
> When I am just writing I use longlines mode, which is fine, but I also
> use a lot of tables, and the tables feature is great, but tables wrap
> unusably when longlines mode is enabled, which is OK when I don't need
> to refer to them, but difficult when I do.
>
> So, at the moment, I am toggling longlines mode off and on every few
> seconds/minutes to let me write.
>
> Is there a better way of dealing with this?
>

Have you tried `auto-fill-mode'?  With this turned on Emacs will break
all of your lines automatically as you type, and your tables will be
able to grow unaffected.  If you do begin to use auto-fill-mode you will
probably want to become familiar with the `fill-paragraph' command
(mapped to M-q) which you can use to tidy up paragraphs which have
gotten away from `auto-fill-mode'.

I don't know of any way to enable longlines-mode without affecting
tables.

Cheers -- Eric

>
> Many thanks,
>
> Graham
>
>
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Re: Writing in Org Mode - line wrap and tables

[Graham Smith]

Eric

> Have you tried `auto-fill-mode'?

I have now :-)

Thanks this seems to do the job

Graham