Re: hard and soft newlines

Aidan> Ar an triú lá déag de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Uwe Brauer: Aidan> ?\n But that is CR LF in linux? Aidan> ?\n (that is, the same character) Aidan> The difference is a text property, `hard' is added to the Aidan> character when use-hard-newlines is t. What do you want to Aidan> do? Ok now I am really confused: 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. I try to discuss this with the guys from wikipedia but I realize that I don't really understand what the difference between a soft and hard newline is.