From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Line-wrapping of 80 character long lines Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 17:50:13 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <84d6ok1i2i.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: <3DABAFF2-060B-11D7-99B1-0003936BB676@henrikholm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038847889 1155 80.91.224.249 (2 Dec 2002 16:51:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 16:51:29 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Itn5-0000IN-00 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 17:51:27 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18ItwB-0007ap-00 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 18:00:51 +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 18Itmh-0000Oq-00; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:51:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Itlz-0008SU-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:50:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Itlx-0008QW-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:50:18 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Itlw-0008NZ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:50:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Itjf-00007y-00 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 17:47:55 +0100 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Itje-00007p-00 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 17:47:54 +0100 Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.informatik.uni-duisburg.de Original-X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038847674 30702 134.91.35.216 (2 Dec 2002 16:47:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 16:47:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IANr1r6KbUWGCIO7MwqMgA5Dg1o= 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:9802 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9802 Henrik Holm writes: > 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.) The problem is where to put the cursor. When point is at the end of the line, where do you display the cursor? 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. -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis)