From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: spinner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: global-visual-line-mode Word Wrap Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:49:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <32071979.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <32070159.post@talk.nabble.com> <4E20B640.7080903@dogan.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310773889 20514 80.91.229.12 (15 Jul 2011 23:51:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:51:29 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 16 01:51:25 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QhsAB-0000ws-6l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:51:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48114 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QhsAA-0007bM-Cn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:51:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56393) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qhs8w-0007Zv-Dz for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:50:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qhs8v-0000Ki-1u for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: from sam.nabble.com ([216.139.236.26]:53036) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qhs8u-0000KW-UZ for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:50:01 -0400 Original-Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by sam.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qhs8t-0002bn-U1 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:49:59 -0700 In-Reply-To: <4E20B640.7080903@dogan.se> X-Nabble-From: michaelcrain@hotmail.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 216.139.236.26 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81609 Archived-At: Deniz: After checking, you are correct. My issue is indeed related to auto-fill-mode. And I have discovered that M-q cleans up my wrapping after my text editing. I'm new to emacs and would have thought line wrapping from such edits would occur automatically. Regardless, M-q is much more efficient that manually cleaning up. Thank you. Deniz Dogan-4 wrote: > > On 2011-07-15 19:47, spinner wrote: >> >> I have (global-visual-line-mode 1) in my emacs file and it functions fine >> in >> wrapping text that I'm writing that's more readable. But when I go back >> and >> edit what I've written, the wrapping no longer occurs naturally. I've >> have >> to fiddle around to get the line breaks right. The lines are longer than >> expected and I then need to do so work to make its appearance consistent >> and >> wrap as expected. >> >> I'm wondering if there is a solution so I don't need to do this extra >> work >> when editing text. >> >> > > I'm not sure, but it sounds to me like you are talking about > auto-fill-mode, not global-visual-line-mode. global-visual-line-mode > only makes Emacs commands act on visual lines instead of logical > (actual) lines. > > If you indeed *are* talking about auto-fill-mode, it is a feature, not a > bug. You can, however, manually "fill" the paragraph you're currently > on by hitting M-q. > > Hope that helps, > Deniz > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/global-visual-line-mode-Word-Wrap-tp32070159p32071979.html Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.