From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
gottlieb@nyu.edu, 4318@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4318: 23.1; trouble indenting looooong lines with visual-line-mode
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:26:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqixg9d3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ty8btshc.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:42:39 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> The problem seems to be that `visual-line-mode' breaks long lines after
>> any white space -- even if the white space begins the line. That
>> doesn't seem optimal, I think.
>
> The extra line stands for the space that is not shown. If you place
> the cursor on that "empty line" and type "C-x =", you will see that
> point is before the space character, not before newline.
>
> So I think visual-line-mode (a.k.a. "word wrap") behaves correctly.
It's different from what other word-wrapping editors do, so I think this
should be considered a bug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-18 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-02 14:13 bug#4318: 23.1; trouble indenting looooong lines with visual-line-mode Allan Gottlieb
2011-09-17 7:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-17 9:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-18 7:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-18 15:26 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2015-12-15 10:51 ` bug#4318: GMNT p8
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