From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Deniz Dogan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Why is there no M-x word-wrap? Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:28:25 +0200 Message-ID: <4FCE41B9.5020500@dogan.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1338917342 12848 80.91.229.3 (5 Jun 2012 17:29:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 17:29:02 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 05 19:28:59 2012 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 1SbxYv-0000yZ-75 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:28:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40222 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SbxYu-00055u-Pj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:28:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54991) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SbxYn-00055f-6p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:28:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SbxYh-0001sB-4K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:28:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mxf1.bahnhof.se ([213.80.101.25]:53969) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SbxYg-0001rt-UV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:28:43 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (mxf1.local [127.0.0.1]) by mxf1-reinject (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7EC91E30FA for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 19:28:40 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at bahnhof.se (MXF1) Original-Received: from mxf1.bahnhof.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mxf1.bahnhof.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id GNxg81jJzdrY for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 19:28:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.4] (h-149-227.a336.priv.bahnhof.se [37.123.149.227]) by mxf1.bahnhof.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB8281E30F0 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2012 19:28:37 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.80.101.25 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:150782 Archived-At: As I understand it, the right way to turn on so called word wrapping in Emacs is by doing (setq word-wrap t). This isn't very user-friendly in my opinion. Why is there no command named `word-wrap' which toggles this mode? It can really throw newbies off telling them to do M-: (setq word-wrap t) and if that's not enough, I find it kind of annoying myself. Deniz