Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!ucdavis!uop!clmebri
From: clmebri@uop.edu (Brian Joseph Maiorella)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: fixing a file
Keywords: auto-fill
Message-ID: <890@uop.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 88 06:53:24 GMT
Organization: University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
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I posted an article asking for help because emacs was "chopping off lines.
I received about 20 resposes (and several more that were lost somewhere
in the UOP UNIX) I want to thank everyone for trying to help.

BUT, unfortunately I still have the problem.  This is my fault (I reread my 
last article and *I* could not even figure out what I meant so it does not 
suprise me that no one else seemed to have any idea either.  So I'm going to 
try one more time.

I have a rather large file that should have been created in auto-fill-mode
Every line in this file is cut as shown below:
   This is an example of a line in the middle of a para/
   graph.

If I use auto-fill it will correctly end lines at word boundrys
for all *future* lines typed like this:
   This is an example of a like in the middle of a 
   paragraph typed in autofill.

Here is the problem: I want all *previously* typed text to be wrapped
at word boundrys as if it was created in auto-fill-mode.

Again instead of tying up this news group needlessly with what I hope
is now obvious to all nonrookie emacs users please mail responses directly
to:


"Its the littlest things that are the hardest to find"
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