emacs and text editing question

[Nonzero]

Hello all.

I have two questions about emacs.

When editing text, is there anyway to have emacs not display the '/'s when the text runs over the edge of the screen? Idealy I would like for the program to move the whole word to the next line, but that is not necessary.

Thanks

[mdwatts]

I never use emacs so I wouldn't know if that would be possible or not.

Have you gone through all the configuration options for emacs or tried the emacs manual/documentation?

[askrieger]

This comes from the EMACS help system. The EMACS help system is reachable by clicking your mouse on Help (in Xemacs) or typing ctrl-h in EMACS, look in the mini-buffer for cues as to what to do next.

> How do I make Emacs wrap words for me?
> ======================================

> Use `auto-fill-mode', activated by typing `M-x auto-fill-mode'. The
> default maximum line width is 70, determined by the variable
> `fill-column'. To learn how to turn this on automatically, see *Note
> Turning on auto-fill by default::.

Hope this helps. EMACS is extremely non-trivial !