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Re: soft wrapping and line numbers


From: Kai Großjohann
Subject: Re: soft wrapping and line numbers
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:41:22 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.09002 (Oort Gnus v0.20) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Eric Carlsen <eric_carlsen@[NO-SPAM].hotmail.com> writes:

> I recently started using emacs and I was wondering if there is a way
> to do some things. For one, is soft word wrapping implemented yet? By
> this I mean that there are no newlines inserted in text but it wraps
> lines on the screen without breaking up characters. Vim does it with
> lbr (I'm not trying to flame, just give background) and I think it is
> commonly done in the windows world.

I have written longlines.el which I'm afraid is a bit of a kludge.
But it might do what you need.

It adds newlines into the buffer when the file is read from disk, and
it removes those newlines again when the file is written back to disk.

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