Guest quakey Posted July 30, 2003 Report Share Posted July 30, 2003 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bjc Posted July 30, 2003 Report Share Posted July 30, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest quakey Posted July 31, 2003 Report Share Posted July 31, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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