* http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/VisualLineMode --very intereting...

** This may explain why you found no help thru google: 

"Visual line mode is a new mode in Emacs 23 that is on by default."

* "The following code convinces visual-line-mode to wrap at a given column by expanding the right margin of the buffer’s window. It’s worked pretty well for me, although it depends on being the only one that fiddles with the margins. --JamesWright

    (defvar visual-wrap-column nil)
    (defun set-visual-wrap-column (new-wrap-column &optional buffer)
....
etc.

** To use the original behavior put the following in your .emacs:

    (setq line-move-visual nil)



On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Paul Whipp <paul.whipp@gmail.com> wrote:
I can adjust the line-spacing variable but I'm looking for a way to separate paragraphs when writing large amounts of text in org-mode. Sticking in an extra carriage return works and has become my habit but it is annoying when the text is copy/pasted or exported to certain formats (such as libreoffice).

I'd like to be able to set the line-spacing such that there is a nice visible vertical gap where I've actually hit the carriage return to create a new paragraph and a smaller vertical spacing where visual line mode has emulated a carriage return for readability. This would probably help in my elisp or python code too because it would make it easy to distinguish wrapped and new lines.

I've tried google but I can't see any way to do this. Can anyone suggest where I should look for a solution?

Regards,
Paul Whipp

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