From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: fill length of visual line mode Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 10:07:29 +0300 Message-ID: <83wq8ggvny.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87oatu6hfn.fsf@kanis.fr> <83tx3mijrz.fsf@gnu.org> <8761g0svf8.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412406783 4655 80.91.229.3 (4 Oct 2014 07:13:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 07:13:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Johan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bockg=E5rd?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 04 09:12:56 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 1XaJWR-0005nN-9G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Oct 2014 09:12:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42803 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XaJWQ-0005wC-RO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Oct 2014 03:12:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35636) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XaJWJ-0005vw-Iy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Oct 2014 03:12:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XaJRP-0002bJ-Rl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Oct 2014 03:07:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:46949) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XaJRA-0002OO-Ul; Sat, 04 Oct 2014 03:07:29 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NCW00I00QW2BE00@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Sat, 04 Oct 2014 10:06:43 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NCW00GVCRR7RW30@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Sat, 04 Oct 2014 10:06:43 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <8761g0svf8.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 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:174963 Archived-At: > From: Johan Bockg=E5rd > Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 23:19:39 +0200 >=20 > Eli Zaretskii writes: >=20 > >> From: Ivan Kanis > >> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 09:48:12 +0200 > >>=20 > >> I just enabled visual line mode today. I have started using it t= o > >> display gnus article. I noticed that the fill happens at the wid= th 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. >=20 > The original word wrap patch by Kim did support wrapping at a speci= fied > column, but this feature was removed when the code was integrated i= nto > Emacs. If so, bringing that back should be easier, as the code to do that is probably archived somewhere.