From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Elaine Sims Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: (Newbie) How to turn AutoFill-mode on/off Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:38:39 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3PQD9.121756$QZ.20321@sccrnsc02> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038080464 22397 80.91.224.249 (23 Nov 2002 19:41:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:41:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Fg9G-0005p3-00 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:41:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18Fg9X-0005mx-00; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 14:41:19 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!sccrnsc02.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Newsflash/4.0-alpha-11 (MacOS/10) Original-Lines: 41 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.98.58.219 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com Original-X-Trace: sccrnsc02 1038080319 24.98.58.219 (Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:38:39 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:38:39 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:107334 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3889 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3889 Michael Slass wrote: > >Elaine Sims writes: > >>(Sorry for the double post - just found the correct newsgroup). >> >>I'm new to Xemacs and want to know if there is a way to undo Auto-Fill >>mode after I've saved my doc and reopened it. >> > >Hi: > >It will be easier to give you a good answer with a more specific >notion of your target. Tell us what your ultimate goal is, and what's >wrong with what emacs is doing for you now, (ie - what are you doing >with the doc that makes you not like the line breaking?) and you're >likely to get a good answer. > >-- >Mike Slass I'm a writer. And I have just started learning Xemacs and have found that it's editing capabilities are superior to any wordprocessor I've ever used. (like C-x-t, C-x-e, C-t, etc,etc). But the problem is: typing in text-mode and seeing the little arrow at the end of the line and the breaks mid-word is a distraction. I'm much more comfortable looking at the screen in auto-fill mode. But then if I open the text in a word processor (AbiWord, Word) it retains the line breaks, which I have to manually delete to reform the paragraphs. If I have to do that to a 100,000 word manuscript I'll go crazy. Actually the only reason I'm opening the file at all in a word processor is because I haven't learned how to format and print out my manuscripts from Xemacs (with double spacing and headers and page numbers) yet. If I could do it all from within Xemacs that would be preferrable. And I'm not adverse to learning a little LISP to do it. Any help I can get would be appreciated. Thanks. Elaine