From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: true "word wrap" Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 15:14:47 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84el8tsyp4.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: <8765u94qep.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> <87hedqh638.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <87fztauwxk.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039285166 21895 80.91.224.249 (7 Dec 2002 18:19:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 18:19:26 +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 18KjXw-0005gu-00 for ; Sat, 07 Dec 2002 19:19:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18KjEF-0006z8-08 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Dec 2002 12:59:03 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news-feed1.de1.concert.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!p50876bb5.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p50876bb5.dip.t-dialin.net (80.135.107.181) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1039270488 31088609 80.135.107.181 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HxAA8mUZ8T/+LIchAoVQVhqfkIE= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:107841 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4385 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4385 Matt Armstrong writes: > This is also for viewing various text files edited by Mac/Windows > programs that like to think that paragraphs and not lines are > terminated by end of line characters. Really, there is no fundamental > reason why Emacs shouldn't support editing like this. For text files, there is longlines.el. It inserts newlines when reading from disk and removes them again before writing. You might like refill.el (or maniac.el) together with it, then you don't have to hit M-q. Warning: I'm the author of longlines.el. -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis)