Re: Line wrap reconsidered

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>]

> I don't understand what you mean by "not wrap the table".  If
> truncate-lines is nil, then long lines _will_ be wrapped.  The Emacs
> display simply don't have a third possibility: either long lines are
> truncated or they are wrapped.  Preventing wrapping can cause it to
> wrap the line at some other place, but wrap it will.
>
> So I don't think I understand the request, and therefore don't see how
> tables could be another relevant use case.  Can you elaborate?

I imagine 'cannot_wrap text property. Emacs would never wrap text at the
character with 'cannot_wrap property set to non-nil.

All the text in table can have this 'cannot_wrap property set to t.
Then, all the lines in the table will never be wrapped, even when
truncate-lines is set to nil.

Best,
Ihor




Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 09:55:46 +0800
>> 
>> The table becomes completely unreadable with line wrapping. It would
>> make sense to have an option not to wrap the table even when lines are
>> not truncated.
>
> I don't understand what you mean by "not wrap the table".  If
> truncate-lines is nil, then long lines _will_ be wrapped.  The Emacs
> display simply don't have a third possibility: either long lines are
> truncated or they are wrapped.  Preventing wrapping can cause it to
> wrap the line at some other place, but wrap it will.
>
> So I don't think I understand the request, and therefore don't see how
> tables could be another relevant use case.  Can you elaborate?

-- 
Ihor Radchenko,
PhD,
Center for Advancing Materials Performance from the Nanoscale (CAMP-nano)
State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
Email: yantar92@gmail.com, ihor_radchenko@alumni.sutd.edu.sg