On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 04:31:45PM +0400, rincewind wrote:
> How do you normally type plain English text in emacs?
I normally use a keyboard :).
> It appears that emacs either doesn't break lines at all (i.e., it
> just wraps a line if it exceeds the screen width, disregarding
> word boundaries), or inserts newlines when you run 'fill' command!
> Or Fundamental is not a proper mode for exiting text (which mode I
> need, then)?
The proper mode for editing text is text-mode.
If you give the extension ".txt" to your files
then emacs automatically turns on the text mode.
>
> How can I make emacs automatically format paragraphs visually,
> without breaking words and without inserting newlines?
The "fill" functions do not break words but they
do insert newlines. I think that what you looking
for ("soft" breaks) is accomplished by the package
"longlines.el". Have a look
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/longlines.el
hth
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