word wrapping in a long document ?!?

word wrapping in a long document ?!?

[William Case]

Hi;

A question born out of frustration.  I have searched the info manual
etc.  Probably, mis-reading or mis-seeing.

I have a long text document that I have opened in emacs. It is almost
completely filled with fringe indicators showing no word wrapping.  I
have word-wrapping mode toggled on.  I can make sentences wrap for a
paragraph by entering return at the end of each paragraph.

Is there a command that will travel through the entire document and add
wrapping (remove fringe indicators) wherever needed.

-- 
Regards Bill
Fedora 12, Gnome 2.28
Evo.2.28, Emacs 23.1.1

Re: word wrapping in a long document ?!?

[Leo]

On 2010-05-02 18:36 +0100, William Case wrote:
> Hi;
>
> A question born out of frustration.  I have searched the info manual
> etc.  Probably, mis-reading or mis-seeing.
>
> I have a long text document that I have opened in emacs. It is almost
> completely filled with fringe indicators showing no word wrapping.  I
> have word-wrapping mode toggled on.  I can make sentences wrap for a
> paragraph by entering return at the end of each paragraph.
>
> Is there a command that will travel through the entire document and add
> wrapping (remove fringe indicators) wherever needed.

,----[ C-h f fill-region RET ]
| fill-region is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `fill.el'.
| 
| It is bound to <menu-bar> <edit> <fill>.
| 
| (fill-region FROM TO &optional JUSTIFY NOSQUEEZE TO-EOP)
| 
| Fill each of the paragraphs in the region.
| A prefix arg means justify as well.
| Ordinarily the variable `fill-column' controls the width.
| 
| Noninteractively, the third argument JUSTIFY specifies which
| kind of justification to do: `full', `left', `right', `center',
| or `none' (equivalent to nil).  A value of t means handle each
| paragraph as specified by its text properties.
| 
| The fourth arg NOSQUEEZE non-nil means to leave whitespace other
| than line breaks untouched, and fifth arg TO-EOP non-nil means
| to keep filling to the end of the paragraph (or next hard newline,
| if variable `use-hard-newlines' is on).
| 
| Return the fill-prefix used for filling the last paragraph.
| 
| 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.
| 
| [back]
`----

Leo

Re: word wrapping in a long document ?!?

[William Case]

Hi Leo;

Thank you.  As usual a stupidity.

On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 19:10 +0100, Leo wrote:
> On 2010-05-02 18:36 +0100, William Case wrote:
> > Hi;
> >

I had being trying everything I could think of including the function
info you sent me.  It just didn't dawn on me to select the region first
i.e. the whole document first.  As soon as I saw your response, it was a
head-slapper.

Wasn't thinking properly -- a little outside prompt from you got both my
head and my fill-region working.

-- 
Regards Bill
Fedora 12, Gnome 2.28
Evo.2.28, Emacs 23.1.1

Re: word wrapping in a long document ?!?

[Ross A. Laird]

William Case <billlinux@rogers.com> writes:

> Hi Leo;
>
> Thank you.  As usual a stupidity.
>
> On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 19:10 +0100, Leo wrote:
>> On 2010-05-02 18:36 +0100, William Case wrote:
>> > Hi;
>> >
>
> I had being trying everything I could think of including the function
> info you sent me.  It just didn't dawn on me to select the region first
> i.e. the whole document first.  As soon as I saw your response, it was a
> head-slapper.
>
> Wasn't thinking properly -- a little outside prompt from you got both my
> head and my fill-region working.

Have you considered visual-line-mode? It will properly align the
document without permanent wrapping (which you may or may not want). I
use visual-line-mode extensively, as it allows me to keep long,
single-line (single Emacs-line) paragraphs (for exporting), but allows
me to have a visually pleasing screen (no arrows).

Cheers.

Ross


-- 
Ross A. Laird, PhD
www.rosslaird.com