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Article #188701Re: Word wrap mode - is there one?
From: Robert L. Knighten
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 18:10
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 18:10
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In article <9106261834.AA15724@anywhere> aks%anywhere@HUB.UCSB.EDU (Alan Stebbens) writes: > Many years ago when I was learning emacs, I asked the same question > as I'm sure many other emacs novices did. > Isn't this evidence of the silly emacs name for wrapping: filling!? Hmm. I would beg to differ: `filling', the "silly emacs name for wrapping" is, in fact, the original typesetting name for the act of filling characters up to the paragraph boundaries. The phrase "word wrapping" is much more recent, and more peculiar to the word processing field and relative newcomers like WordStar and "vi". Thus, emacs' use of the phrase "filling" is reflects a more careful observance of the typesetting concepts, although it is not a typesetter. But auto-fill-mode doesn't fill, it wraps! -- Bob Knighten Encore Computer Corp., 257 Cedar Hill Street, Marlborough, MA 01752 Internet: knighten@encore.com (508) 460-0500 ext. 2626 uucp: encore!knighten (617) 926-0902
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103b8b,eedaed0a23adbd15 X-Google-Attributes: gid103b8b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-06-27 14:03:13 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!stanford.edu!bu.edu!encore!knighten From: knighten@Encore.com (Robert L. Knighten) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Subject: Re: Word wrap mode - is there one? Message-ID: <KNIGHTEN.91Jun27141045@pinocchio.Encore.com> Date: 27 Jun 91 18:10:45 GMT References: <KRAWCHUK.91Jun25205958@fsd.cpsc.UCalgary.ca> <9106261834.AA15724@anywhere> Sender: news@Encore.COM Reply-To: knighten@encore.com (Bob Knighten) Followup-To: gnu.emacs.help Organization: Encore Computer Corp., Marlborough, MA Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: pinocchio.encore.com In-reply-to: aks%anywhere@HUB.UCSB.EDU's message of 26 Jun 91 18:34:26 GMT