auto wrap question

auto wrap question

[Olwe Bottorff]

Yes, auto-wrap again. Anyway, I was working on a Web
page in the default HTML fill mode and it auto-wraps
the long <p> blocks well enough. However, when I split
the screen vertically, <p> lines run on to the right
way off the screen. Horizontal split screen doesn't do
this, but wraps tolerably well. Is there any way to
make lines wrap in vertical split? (I saw
longlines.el, but I wanted to ask here first.) Also,
with the M-q command, it seems to move the right
margin in very aggressively, too much actually. Is
there a way to tame it to, say, an 80- or
100-character block? Also(^2), in HTML fill mode, the
standard C-M-\ indentation throws everything off,
disregarding any tag matching. Is there anything out
there better than the standard HTML fill mode for Web
editing?

Olwe

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Re: auto wrap question

[Kevin Rodgers]

Olwe Bottorff wrote:
> Yes, auto-wrap again. Anyway, I was working on a Web
> page in the default HTML fill mode and it auto-wraps
> the long <p> blocks well enough. However, when I split
> the screen vertically, <p> lines run on to the right
> way off the screen. Horizontal split screen doesn't do
> this, but wraps tolerably well. Is there any way to
> make lines wrap in vertical split? (I saw
> longlines.el, but I wanted to ask here first.)

,----[ C-h v truncate-partial-width-windows RET ]
| truncate-partial-width-windows's value is t
|
| Documentation:
| *Non-nil means truncate lines in all windows less than full frame wide.
|
| You can customize this variable.
`----

> Also,
> with the M-q command, it seems to move the right
> margin in very aggressively, too much actually. Is
> there a way to tame it to, say, an 80- or
> 100-character block?

,----[ C-h k ESC q ]
| ESC q runs the command fill-paragraph
|    which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `textmodes/fill'.
| (fill-paragraph ARG)
|
| Fill paragraph at or after point.  Prefix ARG means justify as well.
| If `sentence-end-double-space' is non-nil, then period followed by one
| space does not end a sentence, so don't break a line there.
| the variable `fill-column' controls the width for filling.
|
| If `fill-paragraph-function' is non-nil, we call it (passing our
| argument to it), and if it returns non-nil, we simply return its value.
|
| If `fill-paragraph-function' is nil, return the `fill-prefix' used for 
filling.
`----

,----[ C-h v fill-column RET ]
| fill-column's value is 70
|
| Documentation:
| *Column beyond which automatic line-wrapping should happen.
| Automatically becomes buffer-local when set in any fashion.
|
| You can customize this variable.
`----

> Also(^2), in HTML fill mode, the
> standard C-M-\ indentation throws everything off,
> disregarding any tag matching. Is there anything out
> there better than the standard HTML fill mode for Web
> editing?

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: auto wrap question

[roodwriter]

Olwe Bottorff <galanolwe@yahoo.com> writes:

> Yes, auto-wrap again. Anyway, I was working on a Web
> page in the default HTML fill mode and it auto-wraps
> the long <p> blocks well enough. However, when I split
> the screen vertically, <p> lines run on to the right
> way off the screen. Horizontal split screen doesn't do
> this, but wraps tolerably well. Is there any way to
> make lines wrap in vertical split? (I saw
> longlines.el, but I wanted to ask here first.) Also,
> with the M-q command, it seems to move the right
> margin in very aggressively, too much actually. Is
> there a way to tame it to, say, an 80- or
> 100-character block? Also(^2), in HTML fill mode, the
> standard C-M-\ indentation throws everything off,
> disregarding any tag matching. Is there anything out
> there better than the standard HTML fill mode for Web
> editing?
> 
> Olwe
> 
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I've never used longlines.el for writing html but the one time I tried
splitting a window vertically experimentally (I'm a writer. I never
need to do this.), longlines did wrap two windows correctly. By
default longlines breaks lines at whatever your general wrap is set
for. But you can change a line in it to wrap lines by window width.

At least this is what I recall. I don't have time right now to try it.


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