Re: (Newbie) How to turn AutoFill-mode on/off

[Jim Janney]

Elaine Sims <esims@mac.com> wrote:
 
> I'm a writer.  And I have just started learning Xemacs and have found that
> it's editing capabilities are superior to any wordprocessor I've ever
> used. (like C-x-t, C-x-e, C-t, etc,etc).
> 
> But the problem is: typing in text-mode and seeing the little arrow at the
> end of the line and the breaks mid-word  is a distraction.  I'm much
> more comfortable looking at the screen in auto-fill mode.
> 
> But then if I open the text in a word processor (AbiWord, Word) it retains
> the line breaks, which I have to manually delete to reform the paragraphs.
> If I have to do that to a 100,000 word manuscript I'll go crazy.
> 
> Actually the only reason I'm opening the file at all in a word processor
> is because I haven't learned how to format and print out my manuscripts
> from Xemacs (with double spacing and headers and page numbers) yet.
> 
> If I could do it all from within Xemacs that would be preferrable.
> 
> And I'm not adverse to learning a little LISP to do it.
> 
> Any help I can get would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Elaine

Removing line breaks is something I do often enough that I wrote a
little function to do it.  It may not handle every situation, but I
haven't noticed any problems.

(defun remove-line-breaks ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((fill-column 9999))
    (fill-individual-paragraphs (point-min) (point-max))))

-- 
Jim Janney