Re: hard and soft newlines

Uwe> I thought newlines are hard in the sense of a word processor. Stephen> They are. But only in an Emacs buffer. Other text Stephen> processing programs, including browsers, wordprocessors, Stephen> wikis, and TeX will treat them differently from Emacs, and Stephen> differently from each other. Well then the filling function behaves a little contra intuitive: Consider this: Some test with a line of 35 columnENTER continues like this till hereENTER When I turn longlines-mode on (and set a corresponding variable) then a end of line symbol will be inserted to every line "¶" ! Some test with a line of 35 columnENTER¶ continues like this till hereENTER¶ When I run fill paragraph on the above paragraph I would get Some test with a line of 35 column continues like this till here¶ But now when I turn on longlines mode the line ending with `till' does not get that symbol "¶" ! That is the filling function did no enter a newline? Has this something to do with the variables sentence-end-double-space or paragraph-start? And finally given all that isn't the name use-hard-newlines a little misleading? Wouldn't it be better to use the phrase use-newlines-with-layout or something? Uwe Brauer