From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New word-wrap feature and continuation fringe bitmaps
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:51:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ej4kwlte.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vdxwinwf.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> (Kim F. Storm's message of "Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:30:08 +0200")
storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> I wondered whether it is by design or mistake that when the word-wrap
> feature is enable, and a word is too wide (and thus has to be split
> in the middle) the continuation fringe bitmaps (typically -> and <-)
> are not shown.
>
> E.g. do C-h C-n and turn on word-wrap in the buffer, and narrow it
> down to 10 columns or so...
It's a limitation. Word wrap is treated as line continuation, and
continuation glyphs are disabled when word wrapping. Unfortunately,
this turns of the glyphs for ordinary line wrapping too.
This shouldn't be difficult to fix, but I don't have time right now.
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2008-08-19 23:30 New word-wrap feature and continuation fringe bitmaps Kim F. Storm
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