From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: "word processor" text files
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:04:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eal66k$g7e$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060731095631.26900.qmail@brouhaha.com>
Paul Rubin wrote:
> I wish there were a way to edit "word processor"-format text files in
> Emacs. I don't mean .doc or anything like that, just .txt files with
> no newlines except between paragraphs. The idea is the text flows
> automatically as you add stuff, or if you insert in the middle.
> Newline ends a paragraph.
>
> The actual goal is to AVOID using a word processor (right now I use
> OpenOffice for this type of file, but I'd rather use Emacs). The
> usual reason is that I want to write some text to paste into a web
> browser form. The browser wants to fill text itself, and any newlines
> in the input turn into incorrectly placed line breaks.
>
> Am I missing something?
,----[ C-h f longlines-mode RET ]
| longlines-mode is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function in `longlines'.
| (longlines-mode &optional arg)
|
| Toggle Long Lines mode.
| In Long Lines mode, long lines are wrapped if they extend beyond
| `fill-column'. The soft newlines used for line wrapping will not
| show up when the text is yanked or saved to disk.
|
| If the variable `longlines-auto-wrap' is non-nil, lines are automatically
| wrapped whenever the buffer is changed. You can always call
| `fill-paragraph' to fill individual paragraphs.
|
| If the variable `longlines-show-hard-newlines' is non-nil, hard newlines
| are indicated with a symbol.
|
| [back]
`----
So:
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook (lambda () (longlines-mode 1)))
--
Kevin
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