*- 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. -- Brian Servis -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
