emacs breaks up long line?

[Guest quakey]

Hi,

 

I am learning to use emacs and I notice that it always breaks up a long line after I press enter to go to the next line. For example, if i type:

 

abcdefghijdfdfsfjgihiglsjdfijsdlifjdsfdlfisjdfisdjflisdjfdsljfsldfjsdfjsd

 

then i hit enter to go to the next line, it would become

 

abcdefghijdfdfsfjgihiglsjdfijsdlifjdsfdlfisj

dfisdjflisdjfdsljfsldfjsdfjsd

 

Then I would have to move the 2nd line back to the 1st line. It's very annoying. Why does emacs do that??

 

Thank you!

[Guest bjc]

Hello:

You can set line length using:

C-u 85 C-x f for a line length of 85. You pick the length you want.

default is set at 70

To change existing text to the new length (eg. 85)

place cursur in paragraph to change, then type M-q

where M is meta key; it's alt key on my keyboard.

emacs changes the whole paragraph.

 

Emacs is great; stay with it a while. Good luck.

[Guest quakey]

Thanks! It works great.

 

Hello:

You can set line length using:

C-u 85 C-x f for a line length of 85. You pick the length you want.

default is set at 70

To change existing text to the new length (eg. 85)

place cursur in paragraph to change, then type M-q

where M is meta key; it's alt key on my keyboard.

emacs changes the whole paragraph.

 

Emacs is great; stay with it a while. Good luck.