From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin@rochooni.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: text mode, auto-fill, refill Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:56:09 +0100 Organization: Bosch Rexroth AG Message-ID: References: <10o4ssggj52rp53@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1100274998 32531 80.91.229.6 (12 Nov 2004 15:56:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:56:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 12 16:56:30 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CSdmn-0004lI-00 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:56:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CSdvL-0000Tw-DI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:05:20 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!newscore.univie.ac.at!news-fra1.dfn.de!news0.de.colt.net!news1.boschrexroth.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 10.110.240.55 Original-X-Trace: loghost1.eu.boschrexroth.com 1100274933 24169 10.110.240.55 (12 Nov 2004 15:55:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@eu.boschrexroth.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:55:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Emacs Gnus Cancel-Lock: sha1:CSSMyz3C59cQM/6E/4jAzKBOlY0= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:126535 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:21929 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:21929 "EC" == Edward Casey writes: EC> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:41:50 -0500 EC> EC> I have a text file with very long lines (average over 200 chars) and in EC> the mode line there are two question marks after L (for line number. How EC> can I refill the entire buffer to a line length of say 70-80 characters? you may select the whole buffer as region and execute the command fill-region on it. perhaps it could suffice to just view the whole line by use of the command toggle-truncate-lines EC> Finally is the process reversible without loss of original formatting? if you dont save the filled version of the file, you may revert the filling using the undo function of emacs. EC> EC> Thanks, EC> Ed. EC> EC> -- martin dot fischer at boschrexroth dot de