Question about org-mode and longlines-mode

Question about org-mode and longlines-mode

[yandros]

I'm experimenting with longlines mode (for prose text that needs to interact with non-Emacs readers) and org-mode (which I use for nearly all my writing).  I'm wondering in particular if there's some way to use the soft-newline fill of longlines-mode and retain the visual indenting by heading level in emacs/org-mode.

For example:

* Top-level heading
  This paragraph is long enough to eventually wrap on to a new line in my 
typical emacs window.

Using org+auto-fill, the words `typical emacs window' would be indented to the same depth as `This paragraph'.  Using longlines-mode, it appears as above.  I'm ok with that for non-Emacs viewers, but I'm hoping that Emacs+Org can do better.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Question about org-mode and longlines-mode

[Bastien]

Hi,

yandros@gmail.com writes:

> I'm experimenting with longlines mode (for prose text that needs to
> interact with non-Emacs readers) and org-mode (which I use for nearly all
> my writing).  I'm wondering in particular if there's some way to use the
> soft-newline fill of longlines-mode and retain the visual indenting by
> heading level in emacs/org-mode.

I don't know of any.

> For example:
>
> * Top-level heading
>   This paragraph is long enough to eventually wrap on to a new line in my 
> typical emacs window.
>
> Using org+auto-fill, the words `typical emacs window' would be indented to
> the same depth as `This paragraph'.  Using longlines-mode, it appears as
> above.  I'm ok with that for non-Emacs viewers, but I'm hoping that
> Emacs+Org can do better.

I don't recommend using longlines-mode with org-mode, it is likely to
yield unexpected display (e.g. for the #+OPTIONS lines, for the tags,
etc.)

I guess visual-line-mode can do the job for most of your needs.

HTH,

-- 
 Bastien

Re: Question about org-mode and longlines-mode

[chad]

On May 16, 2012, at 5:47 AM, Bastien wrote:
> I don't recommend using longlines-mode with org-mode, it is likely to
> yield unexpected display (e.g. for the #+OPTIONS lines, for the tags,
> etc.)
> 
> I guess visual-line-mode can do the job for most of your needs.

I will investigate visual-line-mode, and avoid longlines-mode with org.  Thank you very much for your help, and for all your work on org-mode!

*Chad