Questions tagged [wrapping]
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Soft vs Hard word wrap in Emacs
There are (in my mind) two types of word wrapping:
Hard : Actually edit the file to have lines of a maximum length
Soft : Just wrap in the editor, but the underlying file still has long lines.
I can't figure out how to make Emacs do these two…
Chris Jefferson
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How to wrap line at some characters other than space?
How to set Emacs to wrap long line (using Visual Line Mode) at -, _, (, ) too, instead of just at spaces.
A sample line:
This is a long line with long words like…
aggu
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Line wrapping with prefix
I'm using the answer from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13559061/emacs-how-to-keep-the-indentation-level-of-a-very-long-wrapped-line but can't make it do exactly what I want
If I have this long line of code:
if some_condition:
then
some…
obadz
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configuring the word boundary for word-wrap
Is there a way to configure the word boundary character used for word-wrap like breakat option of vim? The documentation says "When word-wrapping is on, continuation lines are wrapped at the space or tab character nearest to the right window edge".…
Blank_
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Wrap/trunc text at 80 column width
Is it possible to wrap text automatically at 80 column length? I mean, writing code or text and then, when I reach 80 characters, put a breakline and continue on the next line (not wrapping the word but putting on the next line).
Thank you!
user11867
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Bug or feature? Sudden wrapping of lines when window width increases
Context: GNU Emacs 29.0.60 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 1.16.0, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2023-03-30, Development version 4508a024e818 on emacs-29 branch; build date 2023-03-30. Linux Mint 21 (Vanessa) Cinnamon: ~ $ emacs -Q…
Claudio
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Use adaptive wrapping only in one specific major mode
I am using adaptive wrapping (see Correct indentation for wrapped lines) but it applies to all major modes. I would like to only use it for html. What I have tried so far is adding the following to my .emacs file:
(add-hook 'html-mode-hook
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Vincent
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line wrapping is adding unwanted prefix text
Somehow, I must have clicked something that makes my line wrap (M-q) insert text. Here is an example:
line I want to wrap:
- also copied it into the loop that gets executed every time - now we always get degraded results!
results of wrapping:
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