Writing Gopher Posts With Emacs
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Last edited: $Date: 2022/04/07 11:42:02 $
Full justification
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Szczezuja wrote in is phlog that Emacs is better for writing gopher
posts compared to Vim. See:
gopher://sdf.org/0/users/szczezuja/phlog/2022-03-22-Emacs-and-gopher.txt
The reason for this is that Emacs supports so-called
full-justification. This is something I wanted to discover, see how it
works and if this a useable solution for me and I could skip using
`par` for this.
Emacs Full Justification How To
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It turns out this is quite easy to do. You can use the normal
fill-paragraph or fill-region commands for this, only now with a
numerical argument. So, to this, you have to type:
C-u 70 M-q
Where 70 is the number of columns you want you text-width to be.
Headers can be centered with M-x center-line.
Date your postings
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IMHO all your postings in phlogs and blogs should be dated. Szczezuja
uses a function in Emacs or Vim for that. I submit all postings to
RCS, and let RCS take care of adding the current date. Emacs supports
the use of RCS, with the 'normal' revision keybinding C-x v v.
But of course. the most important thing is, to keep writing :)
