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From: jcw@wdl1.UUCP (John C Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU/uEmacs Line Continuation
Message-ID: <3630005@wdl1.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 88 23:00:22 GMT
References: <292@lehi3b15.CSEE.Lehigh.EDU>
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I infer from your mentioning scrolling to the right/left that your version of
GNU lets long lines run off the screen.

How odd.  With our GNU, a l-o-n-g line results in a backslash at the right
margin of the screen followed by the rest of the line on the "next line"
visually.  Of course, I can change this behavior, for example, by 
SETTING UP MY TERMINAL/KEYBOARD DIFFERENTLY.

If I am going to do a lot of text entry, I turn the margin bell on.
If I am entering text without the bell on, I occasionally get carried away
and run past the end--producing the backslash and continuation of the line
on the "next line".  So, I've written a gnu function that lets me clean this
up with one command.

Probably I should write a function that determines that the cursor is
past, say the 72nd character, and replaces the next space I type with a
carriage return or follows the next hyphen with a carriage return.
I ASSUME this will be easy.

So, enlighten those of us who were born last week, how does uEmacs handle
line continuation?

John C. Williams
Ford Aerospace Corporation