Re: help with double spaces etc.

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Todd Wylie <twylie@watson.wustl.edu> writes:

> I would really like to be able to have a mode in emacs that would
> let the user view text in a different manner than emacs saves the
> buffer ... almost a "revert on save" ability. For example, I would
> really like to view text in emacs as double-spaced with auto-fill
> word-wrapping - but to lose the wrapping and line returns when
> saved.
> Are there any libraries that do something like this? I've never
> written lisp -- is this a very hard thing to write?

The "format" feature allows this.  See the variable format-alist.

If you have a shell command which double-spaces a file (well, standard
input) and another un-double-spaces it, then you almost need no Lisp
at all.

kai
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