clmebri@uop.edu (Brian Joseph Maiorella) (01/06/88)
I'm sure there is an easy way to stop emacs from chopping words off and wrapping half over to the next column. But for the life of me I cannot figure out how to do this. I have an old dumb ADDS Viewpoint terminal and emacs is the only editor I have been able to use with it. (The Viewpoint does some weird things like the up arrow is a Ctrl-Z which the UNIX takes to mean as suspend >>frustrating!!<<) This is no problem with emacs since i can just have 2 .emacs files with different maps -one for lab, one for terminal. Anyway, I've been using EMACS for various papers as well as programs. It gets very tedious to fix paragraphs when a couple of words are changed at the top. I'm sure this problem is easy enough, but I have no documentation (and spent a couple hours with help unsuccessfully trying to locate a command). I just discovered this newsgroup and do not feel like tying it up with something that is probably common knowledge to everyone else, so if you could just mail me the answer I'd appreciate. Thanks for any help in advance. -clmebri = CaLl ME BRIan- "Its the littlest things that are the hardest to find" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ...mcvax!uunet!mit-eddie!garp!ames!ucbvax!ucdavis!\ | |..eunetv!unido!/ ...princeton!rutgers!retix!--uop!clmebri | | ...sun!ptsfa!cogent!/ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------
bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (01/08/88)
In article <874@uop.edu> clmebri@uop.edu (Brian Joseph Maiorella) writes: >I'm sure there is an easy way to stop emacs from chopping words off and >wrapping half over to the next column. Say "M-x apropos fill" and you'll find out about (among other stuff): auto-fill-mode: Toggle auto-fill mode. With arg, turn auto-fill mode on iff arg is positive. In auto-fill mode, inserting a space at a column beyond fill-column automatically breaks the line at a previous space. fill-paragraph: Fill paragraph at or after point. Prefix arg means justify as well. In my .emacs, I have: (setq text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill) (setq outline-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill) and all works as desired. Enjoy! -=- Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277 bob@ohio-state.{arpa,csnet} or ...!cbosgd!osu-cis!bob soon: bob@cis.ohio-state.edu
chris@spock (Chris Ott) (02/11/89)
I have a few questions about generating emacs.
1) On a Sun-3 and a Sun-4, running SunOS 4.0.1, emacstool compiles and
runs fine, but I can't seem to get a scrollbar. Why not?
2) Only on the Sun-4, I can't get the documentation program to compile.
The "make" terminates with the message:
sh: : cannot execute
Why? I can get the rest of the stuff to compile, but any time I
try to get help, I get the message "Cannot exec binary file".
I'm running GNU Emacs 18.51. Thanks in advance for your help.
While I'm here, here is a message to Max Ott. I've tried three times
now to reach you, but my mail keeps getting bounced. RELAY.CS.NET keeps
refusing my connection and when I try leaving RELAY out of the path, it
says "Host unknown". Do you have another path?
Chris
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------jr@bbn.com (John Robinson) (02/14/89)
In article <907@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu>, chris@spock (Chris Ott) writes: > 1) On a Sun-3 and a Sun-4, running SunOS 4.0.1, emacstool compiles and > runs fine, but I can't seem to get a scrollbar. Why not? If thie mouse works (I assume it does since you didn't complain), the "scrollbar" is the right edge of each window; mouse hits in this area behave according to the assignments for the scrollbar region. There is no graphical representation of it. Look at the code in lisp/sun-mouse.el for more details. It is possible you are configured so that it is hard to hit; check the setting of the variable scrollbar-width. > 2) Only on the Sun-4, I can't get the documentation program to compile. > The "make" terminates with the message: > > sh: : cannot execute > > Why? I can get the rest of the stuff to compile, but any time I >try to get help, I get the message "Cannot exec binary file". Hmmm. Maybe the program make-docfile is a Sun3 executable and can't execute on the Sun4? Have you removed it and tried over? Is the CC variable in etc/Makefile set up properly, or does it default correctly for the Sun4 in make? [I've never tried any of this on a Sun4] -- /jr jr@bbn.com or bbn!jr