From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Line-wrapping of 80 character long lines Date: 02 Dec 2002 22:23:31 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <5xadjo6ros.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> References: <3DABAFF2-060B-11D7-99B1-0003936BB676@henrikholm.com> <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 1038860682 23077 80.91.224.249 (2 Dec 2002 20:24:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 20:24:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Ix7R-000604-00 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 21:24:41 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18IxGb-000189-00 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 21:34:09 +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 18Ix6q-0008F4-00; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 15:24:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Ix6g-0007yM-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 15:23:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Ix6d-0007vr-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 15:23:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.filanet.dk ([195.215.206.179]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Ix6d-0007qi-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 15:23:51 -0500 Original-Received: from kfs2.cua.dk.cua.dk (unknown [10.1.82.3]) by mail.filanet.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 784917C012; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 20:23:46 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (=?iso-8859-1?q?Kai_Gro=DFjohann?=) In-Reply-To: <84d6ok1i2i.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> Original-Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:9812 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9812 kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > Henrik Holm writes: >=20 > > I really like the feature of Emacs 21 and higher, that the fringes are > > used instead of the \ character to indicate when a line has been > > wrapped. > > > > However, there is one part of this behavior that I find a bit > > misleading: If a line is exactly 80 characters, it gets "wrapped" > > -- even if it is not needed. (This applies of course when my Emacs > > window is 80 characters. If the Emacs window is narrrower, for > > instance 20 cols as in the example below, the behavior will be > > similar.) >=20 > The problem is where to put the cursor. When point is at the end of > the line, where do you display the cursor? >=20 > 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. Also, there's no guarantee that there is a right fringe, or whether it has sufficient width to show a cursor. But for most uses, I think it makes good sense to display the cursor in the fringe. --=20 Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk