Re: hard and soft newlines

Ar an triú lá déag de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Uwe Brauer: > The whole issue has to do with wikipedia. There is a wikipedia-mode, > which I am currently try to extend. Wikipedia is in a way like tex > with respect to line breaks. `soft newlines' in paragraphs as inserted > by filling functions are ignored. Now if you use xemacs as an external > editor for those wikipedia articles, most lines a very long since the > internal editor does not break them. Thats why the author of > wikipedia-mode recommends to use longlines.el which handles this > issue and inserts `hard newlines'. > > What I am not sure about is whether this is really needed or whether > it would be fine to use `soft newlines' and filling for long > paragraphs. That should be fine if Wikipedia is like TeX in this.