Just a quick heads up: use visual-line-mode instead. Word wrap alters the content of the file (or at least, used to), visual line mode is just a visual wrapper that does nothing to the file.
Ruben -- Ruben Berenguel On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 23:58 , David Kuehling wrote: > Hi, > > I recently carried my nanonote with me on a longer bus trip, and used it > to read a .txt-format ebook. I didn't have any time to check for > supported ebook reader applications, so settled on just opening my book > with Emacs from the last firmware. > > With some minor configuration, this worked surprisingly well: > > - Just running Emacs from the menu, the font is a little small and > lacks many non-ASCII characters (even some quote characters!), so I > launched 'jfbterm' from the "terminals" menu and started Emacs by hand > > - White on black text was unpleasent to my eyes. In emacs you can type > <Esc> x invert-face <Ret> default <Ret> > to get black on white text and inverse colors > > - Typing <Esc> x toggle-word-wrap <Ret> does what the name suggests > > Emacs in the last firmwares is already configured to use volume up/down > keys for page-wise scrolling, which comes in handy. > > You'd also want to put this lines into your /root/.emacs config file: > > (desktop-save-mode t) > > to make emacs remember open files and cursor locations between sessions > (you might have to type <Esc> x save-desktop <Ret> and save to /root/ > once to generate the first "desktop" file) > > the word-wrapping of .txt files can be enabled by default via > > (add-hook 'text-mode-hook '(lambda () (setq word-wrap t))) > > And starting Emacs in jfbterm with black-on-white text can be > accomplished with this script: > > #! /bin/sh > exec jfbterm -e emacs --eval "(invert-face 'default)" > > which you can then add a gmenu2x launcher for. Yes, the next firmware > will have a proper .epub reader, but didn't have time to try it yet :) > > In case you want formatted text, Emacs has support for displaying > (roff?) formatted unix manual files, via the built in 'woman' browser. > Just don't know a good way to convert .epub to roff yet. > > cheers, > > David > -- > GnuPG public key: http://dvdkhlng.users.sourceforge.net/dk.gpg > Fingerprint: B17A DC95 D293 657B 4205 D016 7DEF 5323 C174 7D40 > > _______________________________________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]) > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion > >
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