Text reflow woes (or: I want bullets back!)y

[Jason McBrayer]

solderpunk <solderpunk at SDF.ORG> writes:

> Hmm. Neither do I and, in fact, well...I just do it manually. Which I
> feel very sheepish admitting because that's kind of ridiculous. But
> everybody writing for Gopherspace (which is many people here) must
> face precisely this problem, because hard-wrapping is basically
> compulsory there. What are other people doing, writing in "long line"
> form and then feeding the result to `fmt` or `par` before uploading?

I use Emacs. I set fill-column to 72 characters, and turn on
auto-fill-mode. This means that things get hard wrapped while I am
writing. You can reflow a paragraph with one key: M-q, mapped to
fill-paragraph or unfill-toggle. I'm normally writing Markdown, which
will get converted to HTML for my static blog, or served raw on my
gopherhole. 

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