From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ross@rosslaird.com (Ross A. Laird) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: word wrapping in a long document ?!? Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 16:56:01 -0700 Message-ID: <87mxwhluy6.fsf@rosslaird.com> References: <1272821780.1913.41.camel@CASE> <1272832017.1913.47.camel@CASE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272844601 2692 80.91.229.12 (2 May 2010 23:56:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 23:56:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 03 01:56:40 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O8j1b-0001JK-Vn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 May 2010 01:56:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60002 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O8j1b-0006OB-GI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 May 2010 19:56:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O8j1D-0006NM-MA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 May 2010 19:56:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45312 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O8j1C-0006NB-DE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 May 2010 19:56:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O8j1B-0008BS-G5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 May 2010 19:56:14 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:55724) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O8j1B-0008B7-9b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 May 2010 19:56:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O8j19-0001BU-13 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 May 2010 01:56:11 +0200 Original-Received: from h24-207-49-46.dlt.dccnet.com ([24.207.49.46]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 May 2010 01:56:11 +0200 Original-Received: from ross by h24-207-49-46.dlt.dccnet.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 May 2010 01:56:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h24-207-49-46.dlt.dccnet.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:384hR0Sqb7w1MEfGNV19f87lA9M= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:72883 Archived-At: William Case writes: > Hi Leo; > > Thank you. As usual a stupidity. > > On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 19:10 +0100, Leo wrote: >> On 2010-05-02 18:36 +0100, William Case wrote: >> > Hi; >> > > > I had being trying everything I could think of including the function > info you sent me. It just didn't dawn on me to select the region first > i.e. the whole document first. As soon as I saw your response, it was a > head-slapper. > > Wasn't thinking properly -- a little outside prompt from you got both my > head and my fill-region working. Have you considered visual-line-mode? It will properly align the document without permanent wrapping (which you may or may not want). I use visual-line-mode extensively, as it allows me to keep long, single-line (single Emacs-line) paragraphs (for exporting), but allows me to have a visually pleasing screen (no arrows). Cheers. Ross -- Ross A. Laird, PhD www.rosslaird.com