Re: Wordprocessor behaviour

[Kevin Rodgers]

Daniel Andersen wrote:

> I'm quite new to emacs and I have a question which has bothered me a 
> long time. I'm writing a book and started using emacs insteed of Word, 
> which I got pretty much tired of, but there is one thing which annoyes 
> me; when I have written a long sentense and it is wrapped to many lines 
> on the screen, then when I want to go on "screen-line" up in the same 
> sentence, it jumps to the previous paragraph insteed, which means that I 
> have to move the cursor along the line insteed to get upwards.
>
> I have searched for information on this but couldn't find any myself; I 
> know that one can have emacs break long lines itself, but I don't want 
> it to do so...

Check out the Emacs Lisp List: http://anc.ed.ac.uk/~stephen/emacs/ell.html

I found screen-lines.el there, which you could try:
http://homepage1.nifty.com/bmonkey/emacs/elisp/screen-lines.el

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