From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Rutherford Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Wordprocessor behaviour Date: 23 Jun 2003 23:01:15 +1000 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87smq19cdg.fsf@scripsi.ath.cx> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1056373551 22072 80.91.224.249 (23 Jun 2003 13:05:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:05:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 23 15:05:50 2003 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 19UR13-0005js-00 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 15:05:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19UR0i-0007xG-EG for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 09:05:28 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 92-118.dsl.connexus.net.au Original-X-Trace: news.internex.net.au 1056373168 92-118.dsl.connexus.net.au (23 Jun 2003 22:59:28 +1000) Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.internex.net.au Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114628 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:11121 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11121 Daniel Andersen writes: > Hi all! > > I'm quite new to emacs and I have a question which has bothered me a > long time. I'm writing a book and started using emacs insteed of Word, > which I got pretty much tired of, but there is one thing which annoyes > me; when I have written a long sentense and it is wrapped to many > lines on the screen, then when I want to go on "screen-line" up in the > same sentence, it jumps to the previous paragraph insteed, which means > that I have to move the cursor along the line insteed to get upwards. > > I have searched for information on this but couldn't find any myself; > I know that one can have emacs break long lines itself, but I don't > want it to do so... Why not? The tools you would use beside emacs to write a book treat line-breaks as white space. There's no reason for long lines: they don't fit on a terminal and they're hard to edit. If you have a need for them in the end, there are probably modes doing what sed or tr do. -- Andrew Rutherford ajrutherford@mail.ru