> 1.1   80, 132, and N characters per line
>
> Can you/how do you set Xemacs to automatically hard break on (or before) the
> Nth character of a line (breaking on whitespace, or offering to hyphenate if
> in a suitable mode)?  Surely the function already exists and can be accessed
> through a key-chord or M-x_function_name_.

You want the fill functions.  "C-h a fill" for more information.  Some 
interesting ones for you purposes would include fill-paragraph, 
auto-fill-mode, and set-fill-column.  There are plenty of other fill 
related things you can set/use that you'll see whe you pull up the help 
for them.


> 1.2   End-of-Line (CrLf) in Xemacs.
>
> There are MANY time when I want Xemacs to NOT use the standard *nix Lf EOL.
> One common mode is when I want to use Xemacs to prepare a text file for a
> certain family of systems that use CrLf as the EOL and that have a commonly
> used simple text editor that refuses to display Lf alone as anything other
> than an in-line box.

I haven't done any of this myself, but a quick browse through the xemacs 
help system shows a bunch of coding-system related functions that look 
like they'll let you set however you want the file to be encoded 
(including EOL).


> I am even more annoyed when working on SGML or any of its descendents.  Did
> you know that SGML is implicitly record-oriented?  Furthermore, SGML's
> default End-of-Record is CrLf.  (In addition, woe to the SGML author who
> assumes that the CrLf EOR is necessarily the same as the system-SGML EOL.)
> More precisely, the SGML standard left me with the impression that Lf
> actually corresponds to "start of record" while Cr corresponds to "end of
> record", so records are properly delimited with complimentary delimiters.
> The exception is the start of a document or file's first line has an
> "implicit" record start and the line prior to EOF has an implicit EOR.

Beats me. (-=  It's possibly a silly assuption, but it seems like 
sgml-mode should have the appropriate things to deal with whitespace 
correctly for it.  You might have some luck looking up the mode's help 
information (C-h m).


> Also, is there an easy way to make the stupid ^M's go away (and come back)?

query-regex-replace would be what I'd use, but I tend to do strange things 
at times.


> How do you enter a ^M?  C-M doesn't seem bound to anything?

You can enter any key you would like (even if it's bound to something) by 
using the quoted-insert command.  This is generally bound to C-q by 
default, so try C-q C-m to enter one.

 	--Nick

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