Re: Text-Mode for a beginner

[David Combs]

In article <mailman.2752.1193745701.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Andreas Röhler  <andreas.roehler@online.de> wrote:
>Am Dienstag, 30. Oktober 2007 04:29 schrieb John O'Connor:
>> Apologies if my question is of insufficiently cosmic importance. I am
>> trying to figure out how to make Emacs behave more like a modern editor
>> in its handling of paragraphs. What I mean by that is that I want to be
>> able to (as I do in, say, OpenOffice) type an entire paragraph without
>> having to put a newline at the end of every line. I know that
>> auto-fill-mode accomplishes this somewhat, but it has the unfortunate
>> side effect of inserting newlines everywhere, and when I paste my text
>> into OOo the line lengths will not conform to the width of the page.
>
>
>call `mark-whole-buffer' and `unfill-region' before
>copying.
>

What is "unfill-region"?

Is not in my emacs (M-x version: 21.3.2).

If found and defined, Would it *work* in my emacs?

Thanks,

David