From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Fullscreen text editor behavior Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:22:39 +0200 Message-ID: <4702B69F.7030200@gmail.com> References: <1191342061.050449.306030@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191360304 8965 80.91.229.12 (2 Oct 2007 21:25:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:25:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: theongoingrealityshow@gmail.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 02 23:25:01 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 1IcpEK-0005NJ-UD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:24:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IcpEF-00006i-Bt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:24:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IcpDd-0008PD-Bo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:23:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IcpDY-0008N8-V4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:23:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IcpDY-0008N4-Pw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:23:48 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IcpDX-00035x-RD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:23:48 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-132-79.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.132.79]:64749 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1IcpDD-0000T2-8O; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:23:28 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <1191342061.050449.306030@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000778-1, 2007-10-02), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.132.79 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1IcpDD-0000T2-8O. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1IcpDD-0000T2-8O 764ec663024d542a234ee69120f94051 X-Detected-Kernel: 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:48057 Archived-At: theongoingrealityshow@gmail.com wrote: > I've been trying to get emacs to mimic the popular fullscreen text > editors like writeroom/darkroom etc. I found this > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1235260 > > but it does not work well with longlines.el and it inserts hard line > breaks otherwise, can anyone recommend a way to get a 60 character > column of text down the center of my screen? > > I coul djust use jdarkroom..but I'd like to see if I can do it in > emacs. Have you tried longlines-mode and left-margin-width?