From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ivan Kanis <ivan@kanis.fr>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: fill length of visual line mode
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 18:16:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tx3mijrz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oatu6hfn.fsf@kanis.fr>
> From: Ivan Kanis <ivan@kanis.fr>
> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 09:48:12 +0200
>
> I just enabled visual line mode today. I have started using it to
> display gnus article. I noticed that the fill happens at the width of
> the Emacs window. I set fill-column to 70 and I was expecting it to wrap
> there.
That's not how word-wrap was designed and implemented. It works more
like Web browsers, i.e. it wraps at the window edge.
> There is a hack [1] by James Wright to make it work by expanding the
> right margin of the buffer's window.
>
> I don't feel it should be so complicated to customize this behavior.
>
> Would it be OK to code wrap at fill-column?
Not sure what you mean by your question. Are you asking whether
patches to implement the wrap at fill-column will be accepted? If so,
I'm quite sure the answer is YES.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-02 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-02 7:48 fill length of visual line mode Ivan Kanis
2014-10-02 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-10-03 21:19 ` Johan Bockgård
2014-10-04 7:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-04 17:16 ` Johan Bockgård
2014-10-02 15:50 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-03 20:39 ` Ivan Kanis
2014-10-03 21:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-04 9:58 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2014-10-04 15:45 ` Drew Adams
2014-10-04 14:23 ` Ivan Kanis
2014-10-04 22:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-05 7:59 ` Ivan Kanis
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