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(emacs)Requesting Formatted Text

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Requesting to Edit Formatted Text
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   Whenever you visit a file that Emacs saved in the text/enriched
format, Emacs automatically converts the formatting information in the
file into Emacs's own internal format (text properties), and turns on
Enriched mode.

   To create a new file of formatted text, first visit the nonexistent
file, then type `M-x enriched-mode' before you start inserting text.
This command turns on Enriched mode.  Do this before you begin inserting
text, to ensure that the text you insert is handled properly.

   More generally, the command `enriched-mode' turns Enriched mode on
if it was off, and off if it was on.  With a prefix argument, this
command turns Enriched mode on if the argument is positive, and turns
the mode off otherwise.

   When you save a buffer while Enriched mode is enabled in it, Emacs
automatically converts the text to text/enriched format while writing it
into the file.  When you visit the file again, Emacs will automatically
recognize the format, reconvert the text, and turn on Enriched mode
again.

   Normally, after visiting a file in text/enriched format, Emacs
refills each paragraph to fit the specified right margin.  You can turn
off this refilling, to save time, by setting the variable
`enriched-fill-after-visiting' to `nil' or to `ask'.

   However, when visiting a file that was saved from Enriched mode,
there is no need for refilling, because Emacs saves the right margin
settings along with the text.

   You can add annotations for saving additional text properties, which
Emacs normally does not save, by adding to `enriched-translations'.
Note that the text/enriched standard requires any non-standard
annotations to have names starting with `x-', as in `x-read-only'.
This ensures that they will not conflict with standard annotations that
may be added later.