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 :)