Re: Newline-phobic text help.

[John Mastro]

R. Clayton <rvclayton@acm.org> wrote:
>   You're being polite by not pointing out that using enriched-mode to do what 
> I
>   want is a stupid idea.  Apart from the hard-soft newlines problem, there's 
> also
>   the header at the beginning of the file.

I'm just not familiar enriched-mode :)

> The only trick would be identifying when you've got an "It's All Text!"
> buffer so you can evaluate that code.
>
>   I hacked around that like so: point iat to an editor that's the shim shell
>   script
>
>     emacs --exec '(defconst its-all-text! t)' $@
>
>   and put
>
>     (when (boundp? 'its-all-text!)
>       (auto-fill-mode -1)
>       (visual-line-mode))
>
>   in the text-mode-hook.

That's definitely nicer than my suggestion.

        John