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in reply to New code wrap options

Cutting and pasting code sections from Mozilla to emacs with the new Auto Code Wrap feature didn't work too well for me at first, so I hadn't been using it. Tonight I investigated further and found that the following line in my .emacs config file fixes it for me. 
;; perlmonks soft-hyphen fix (noop for hidden char)
(global-set-key "\xad" ())

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Update: Furthermore, putting this in my ~/.inputrc file fixes it for my shell. 
"\xAD":noop

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-Blake

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