On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> There was also a reference in the original post below to
> longlines-mode...

I apologise for jumping into the middle of a conversation but your
reference to longlines-mode brings to mind visual-line-mode which was
introduced in Emacs 23 (I believe). This mode turns on =word-wrap= as
well which makes the text look like it has been filled (i.e. soft
returns in your parlance) without actually changing the underlying
text.

I saw that as well. Haven't tried it but the question will be whether Org exports the actual contents of the file or what it appears to be on the screen. Longlines mode seems to do something similar in that it is "wrapped" but the file actually contains no line breaks... however when exporting to html, Org seems to use what the buffer looks like, not what the actual file contains.

John

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