From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: Ivan Andrus <darthandrus@gmail.com>, 11759@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11759: 24.1.50; word-wrap should wrap on non-words if the current word is too long
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:14:12 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vcii701n.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvbokck379.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:09:32 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:
>> if the entire line is one "word" but indented, which is not uncommon
>> in some files that I regularly edit, then the entire line is wrapped
>> to the next line leaving a completely blank visual line.
>
> I also use word-wrap everywhere, including programming modes and see the
> same problem.
>
> - if the word is the first non-blank char on the line, wrapping to the
> next line results in a visually empty line, losing the
> indentation info.
> - if the word is wider than the window (plus the wrap-prefix), then even
> after word-wrapping it to the next line, it gets char-wrapped anyway,
> so we didn't win anything.
FWIW, word wrap behaves the same way in other editors (checked with
gedit and with a text box in Firefox).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-23 11:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-21 16:27 bug#11759: 24.1.50; word-wrap should wrap on non-words if the current word is too long Ivan Andrus
2012-06-21 17:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-23 11:14 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2012-06-23 11:27 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-06-23 12:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-06-23 13:06 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-06-23 15:15 ` Stefan Monnier
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