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Re: Word wrap
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platter |
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Re: Word wrap |
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Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:24:08 -0600 |
Thank you Chuck for the suggestion. Ufortunately it had no effect;
I'm not sure why.
I have found many entries on the net with people wanting this basic
functionality from emacs, but no solutions on how to do it. Every
"word processor" that I have ever used does this automatically, but it
seems to be completely foreign to emacs. I am almost certain that I
am missing something.
This is what I need emacs to do, what I am (possibly incorrectly)
calling "Word Wrap":
Break lines at spaces when the lines exceed the margin amount, without
actually inserting carriage returns into the file, so that files can
be viewed in a way that pleases most normal human beings without
changing the file contents by inserting newline characters.
There has to be a simple way to do this. Does anyone know how?
Thanks,
John
> john --
> try (setq truncate-partial-width-windows t) in your .emacs
> (or _emacs) file, or enter it at the minibuffer via either M-:
> or M-x eval-expression.
> -- chuck
> platter@earthlink.net wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Would someone please tell me how to do word wrap in emacs? I
>> know about auto-fill, but I want something that doesn't
>> actually insert newlines, because I don't want them saved in
>> the document. I'm looking for the word-wrap functionality as
>> present in most basic word processors.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John
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