A fixed page length mode for Emacs.
A page-based text editing/note taking/concept thinking Emacs minor mode. Presents buffer content as pages of predefined number of lines (50 by default). It is an analog of pages in a paper notebook. It can be used with org mode or any other text mode.
I found out that while making notes or doing research on paper, a concept of page is very helpful in the process. I tend to memorize what I wrote and where it was on the page, either in the middle of it, in a corner, at bottom etc. This makes it easier to recall it and also reconnect back to what I was thinking while writing it down.
Trying to document my research, and concept thinking, with fabulous org-mode works half way through, since the text is vertically scrollable. The concept of a page is not directly available there.
Why not to change it and provide such a fixed-page facility on top of any text file?
This is a minor mode for Emacs which turns on pagination for current buffer. It should work with a text mode (or org-mode).
Instead of continuous up/down text scrolling it divides the text in the buffer into fixed length pages.
Using PgUp (<next>) and PgDown (<prior>) by default turns the page up and down.
If you remove a line a blank line is added at the end of the current page.
Incremental search is cross-page and bound to C-s and C-r for forward and backward search respectively.
The page length is configurable with fixed-page-length variable and set to 50 by default.
You can alter it via Emacs customization facility or set it directly to a desired value:
(setq fixed-page-length 50)The mode is non-destructive to the edited file, it will not have any additional characters or marks added identifying the page split, hence you can use it with any text format, including org-mode, Markdown or programming languages.
GNU General Public License 3.0.