From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: fill length of visual line mode Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 08:45:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4027bf67-ce8e-461c-8c9a-be55884974cf@default> References: <87vbo0ga6i.fsf_-_@kanis.fr> <20141004.115834.416226893935804906.hanche@math.ntnu.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412437557 5989 80.91.229.3 (4 Oct 2014 15:45:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 15:45:57 +0000 (UTC) To: Harald Hanche-Olsen , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 04 17:45:50 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XaRWn-00088A-86 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Oct 2014 17:45:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43968 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XaRWm-0000hv-My for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Oct 2014 11:45:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37600) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XaRWN-0000gl-7X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Oct 2014 11:45:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XaRWB-0004xZ-9q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Oct 2014 11:45:23 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:50338) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XaRWB-0004xO-3q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Oct 2014 11:45:11 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id s94Fj8nY006233 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 4 Oct 2014 15:45:09 GMT Original-Received: from userz7022.oracle.com (userz7022.oracle.com [156.151.31.86]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s94Fj6vW007786 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 4 Oct 2014 15:45:08 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0018.oracle.com (abhmp0018.oracle.com [141.146.116.24]) by userz7022.oracle.com (8.14.5+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s94Fj542018114; Sat, 4 Oct 2014 15:45:05 GMT In-Reply-To: <20141004.115834.416226893935804906.hanche@math.ntnu.no> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:174968 Archived-At: > Perhaps emacs could have a variable max-fill-column which, when set, > could govern visual line mode in this way? If set to t, it would > mean use the value of fill-column. Or if set to a number, ignore > fill-column and use the number itself. It shouldn't be allowed to > override fill-column in the other use cases, though. Perhaps > visual-line-max-fill-column would be a better name, if perhaps a bit > unwieldy. If it is specific to visual lines then yes of course, "visual-line" (or similar) should be in the name. Users should not be able to get the impression, by looking only at the name, that this has something to do with `fill-column' generally.