Re: emacs and word processing
*- On 10 Nov, Philip Lehman wrote about "emacs and word processing"
>
> Recently, I started using XEmacs to edit LaTeX files. The LaTeX mode
> is nice, but some features related to word processing still pose
> some problems to me:
>
Can't help on the ispell issues, sorry.
> (4) I turned on auto-fill-mode and filladapt-mode. Frankly, I have no
> idea what that really means, but while typing new text word-wrapping
> works the way I want it now. I guess auto-fill is what I was looking
> for in the first place, what does fill-adapt do, anyway? ;) (Don't
> flame me for that, these docs are killing me.) However, when adding a
> word to a paragraph or deleting some words I miss a convenient way to
> re-justify the whole paragraph, something like hitting ^J in Pico.
>
I have added the following to my .emacs, you can customize to your
liking. I think the syntax my be updated now but I have used this for
years and it still works.
;;; make C-cp fill-paragraph
(global-set-key "\C-cp" 'fill-paragraph)
A quick look at the xemacs info docs show that the following should work
as well.
(global-set-key '[(control c) (c)] 'fill-paragraph)
> (5) Is there some documentation on the X resources used by XEmacs for
> Joe XEmacs user? The sample Emacs.ad and .xdefaults files are not very
> comprehensive. I figured out how to change the look of the Athena and
> Motif style widgets but I still don't know how to set the background
> color of the text space and the 'shadowWidth' of the minibuffer bar (I
> have a very specific understanding of the word customization ;).
>
There is more info in the man page and in the xemacs info document in
the 'X Resources' node.
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