Re: displaying one character per line.

["Sandip Chitale" <sandipchitale@nospam.comcast.net>]

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"Joe Corneli" <jcorneli@math.utexas.edu> wrote in message news:mailman.311.1077514489.340.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...
> What to do to get this to look like this:
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> I don't mean just the search-and-replace solution: I am thinking
> that the buffer should have the same content as it does normally,
> just shown in this weird display mode.  I'd also like to be able to
> do a word-based version of the same thing:
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> What
> to
> do
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> like
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