Re: auto wrap question

[Kevin Rodgers]

Olwe Bottorff 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.)

,----[ C-h v truncate-partial-width-windows RET ]
| truncate-partial-width-windows's value is t
|
| Documentation:
| *Non-nil means truncate lines in all windows less than full frame wide.
|
| You can customize this variable.
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> 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?

,----[ C-h k ESC q ]
| ESC q runs the command fill-paragraph
|    which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `textmodes/fill'.
| (fill-paragraph ARG)
|
| Fill paragraph at or after point.  Prefix ARG means justify as well.
| If `sentence-end-double-space' is non-nil, then period followed by one
| space does not end a sentence, so don't break a line there.
| the variable `fill-column' controls the width for filling.
|
| If `fill-paragraph-function' is non-nil, we call it (passing our
| argument to it), and if it returns non-nil, we simply return its value.
|
| If `fill-paragraph-function' is nil, return the `fill-prefix' used for 
filling.
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,----[ C-h v fill-column RET ]
| fill-column's value is 70
|
| Documentation:
| *Column beyond which automatic line-wrapping should happen.
| Automatically becomes buffer-local when set in any fashion.
|
| You can customize this variable.
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> 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?

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Kevin Rodgers