Re: vertical split autofill

[Olwe Bottorff]

Thanks for the info. I did grab the latest
sgml-mode.el, but it seems incompatable with my emacs
21.3.1 on Fedora3. I tried byte-compile and it gave me
the error:
"Invalid escape character syntax". This is what the
regular .el does too when it tries to load when I grab
an .html file. I checked the archives and somebody
mentions the problem but didn't seem to get a
response.

Olwe

--- Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> > Yes, auto-wrap again. Anyway, I was working on a
> Web
> > page in the default HTML fill mode and it
> auto-wraps
> > the long <p> blocks well enough. However, when I
> split
> > the screen vertically, <p> lines run on to the
> right
> > way off the screen. Horizontal split screen
> doesn't do
> > this, but wraps tolerably well. Is there any way
> to
> > make lines wrap in vertical split? (I saw
> > longlines.el, but I wanted to ask here first.)
> 
> auto-fill-mode doesn't pay attention to the size of
> the window that displays
> the buffer.  It just uses fill-column, which you can
> set via C-x f.
> 
> > Also, with the M-q command, it seems to move the
> right margin in very
> > aggressively, too much actually. Is there a way to
> tame it to, say, an 80-
> > or 100-character block?
> 
> That's what set-fill-column is for.  More than 80 is
> not recommended because
> brains can't handle long lines as well as shorter
> ones.
> 
> > Also(^2), in HTML fill mode, the standard C-M-\
> indentation throws
> > everything off, disregarding any tag matching. Is
> there anything out there
> > better than the standard HTML fill mode for Web
> editing?
> 
> Try a more recent sgml-mode.el.  The one in
> Emacs-CVS does proper
> indentation.
> 
> 
>         Stefan
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