Re: Filling a string?

[Tassilo Horn]

Vaidheeswaran C <vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju@gmail.com> writes:

>>> > so I want part of the buffer to have wrapped lines (preferably at
>>> > word boundaries), and part to have not (like having
>>> > toggle-truncate lines only for a region).  I suspect this is not
>>> > possible
>> Can't you just insert unwrapped lines and use `fill-region' on the
>> parts you want to have wrapped?
>
> I have a feeling that he wants the "fill" to be "soft" on certain
> paragraphs of his choosing.  The only mode that I know of where in
> Emacs "persists" text properties is "Enriched Mode".
>
>     (info "(emacs) Hard and Soft Newlines")
>
> In other words, the user wants to configure right/left margins and
> importantly the width of the text area on per-paragraph basis. In the
> actual file, a paragraph will have no newline at all howsoever it may
> be displayed.

Ah, ok.  I think it's possible, too.  There are left-margin and
right-margin text properties.

,----[ (info "(elisp)Format Properties") ]
| These text properties affect the behavior of the fill commands.  They
| are used for representing formatted text.  *Note Filling::, and *note
| Margins::.
| 
| [...]
| 
| ‘right-margin’
|      This property specifies an extra right margin for filling this part
|      of the text.
| 
| ‘left-margin’
|      This property specifies an extra left margin for filling this part
|      of the text.
`----

So possibly adding these properties to some paragraphs in your buffer +
`visual-line-mode' might do the trick.

Bye,
Tassilo