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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Micro-emacs wish list
Message-ID: <1437@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 90 02:37:32 GMT
References: <1990Aug6.151304.11745@sjuphil.uucp>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <1990Aug6.151304.11745@sjuphil.uucp> tmoody@sjuphil.UUCP () writes:

| 2.  A mode for dealing with text without using carriage returns at the
| end of on-screen lines.  XyWrite, for example, "wraps" text on-screen
| without modifying the text file at all.  Many publishers prefer to
| receive electronic manuscripts in this form.  The MS-DOS editor called
| "VDE" is capable of this, but is in other respects somewhat deficient,
| in my opinion.  I have no idea if this is a tall programming order,
| since I am no programmer.

  Well, in 3.9 it's not problem, I assume it's still the smae. When you
are all done with your data entry, set the line length to 9999, place
your cursor on the line *before* the first paragraph, and start hitting
ESC-Q to reformat the paragraphs.

  Of course if you don't have tables or such you can repeat it rather
than typing the command repeatedly.

  I do this for submissions to several places.
-- 
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