From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: list@henrikholm.com (Henrik Holm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Line-wrapping of 80 character long lines Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 17:48:14 -0600 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <1fmk9oy.1i9egj418mzk5wM%list@henrikholm.com> References: <84d6ok1i2i.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038873018 7824 80.91.224.249 (2 Dec 2002 23:50:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 23:50:18 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18J0KL-00021l-00 for ; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 00:50:13 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18J0Ta-00037I-00 for ; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 00:59:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18J0JH-00075c-00; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 18:49:07 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18J0IP-0006XW-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 18:48:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18J0IO-0006XH-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 18:48:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mhub-w2.tc.umn.edu ([160.94.160.45]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18J0IN-0006XB-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 18:48:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mhub0.tc.umn.edu (mhub0.tc.umn.edu [128.101.131.40]) by mhub-w2.tc.umn.edu with ESMTP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 17:48:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from [128.101.168.32] by mail.tc.umn.edu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 17:48:05 -0600 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org (Emacs developers) In-Reply-To: <84d6ok1i2i.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> User-Agent: MacSOUP/2.5b2 (unregistered) X-Umn-Remote-Mta: [N] mhub0.tc.umn.edu #+LO+TR (I,-) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9817 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9817 Kai Gro=DFjohann writes: > Henrik Holm writes: >=20 > > However, there is one part of this behavior that I find a bit > > misleading: =20 > > If a line is exactly 80 characters, it gets "wrapped" > > -- even if it is not needed. >=20 > The problem is where to put the cursor. When point is at the end of > the line, where do you display the cursor? Ah, I see. Didn't think of that. > One solution is to be able to display the cursor in the right > fringe. Another possibility might be to display the cursor as a > narrow vertical bar to the right of the last character. Any one of these would work... although, personally, I'd be leaning towards the 'vertical bar'-solution. Is it possible to have the cursor as a vertical bar in this particular case and as a box anywhere else? Henrik