From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: Lex Fridman <lexfridman@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Auto-Fill (aka Word Wrap) of Headline Text
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:53:10 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <818vt9pxyp.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimexNpjc43uQMSnbq4_K2_w+4ajeQ@mail.gmail.com> (Lex Fridman's message of "Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:12:12 -0400")
You can turn on longlines-mode. I see that fontification of the
headlines doesn't continue on to the continuation line. Nevertheless it
would permit having long headlines while having the convenience of it
(visually) wrapped around.
Jambunathan K.
Lex Fridman <lexfridman@gmail.com> writes:
> So, for a to-do list, if I want to write a lengthy description for a
> to-do item, do I need to start the description on the next line
> without the stars (*) at the beginning?
>
> I guess that makes sense. See, I thought of the headlines more as a
> bulleted list and not just a section heading tree...
>
> If you have any suggestions or guidance, let me know. Either way,
> thanks for the sanity check.
>
> - Lex
>
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
> <darcamo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think this is the correct behaviour, since headlines cannot span multiple
>> lines (as far as I know).
>>
>> This is also the case for the fill-paragraph command. If you try to call
>> fill-paragraph in a headline nothing happens.
>>
>> --
>> Darlan
>>
>> At Thu, 9 Jun 2011 17:56:02 -0400,
>> Lex Fridman <lexfridman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I enable auto-fill (aka word wrap) with:
>>> (add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
>>>
>>> Now, while editting an org file, I check the minor modes with "C-h m",
>>> and Auto-Fill is one of them. So when I type a long line it should
>>> automatically wrap, right? It does for regular text but NOT for when
>>> it's a headline (line starts with one or more *'s).
>>>
>>> I'm sorry if this is a trivial question, but I simply have not been
>>> able to find a solution. I'm using org-mode version 7.4 in emacs
>>> 23.2.1 on Ubuntu 11.04.
>>>
>>
>
>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-10 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-09 21:56 Auto-Fill (aka Word Wrap) of Headline Text Lex Fridman
2011-06-10 3:58 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2011-06-10 4:12 ` Lex Fridman
2011-06-10 13:41 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2011-06-10 14:23 ` Jambunathan K [this message]
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