From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display-based word wrapping Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:04:34 -0400 Message-ID: <87mylab77x.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87k5gen1vn.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87od5qd2x3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87ej6mxzzp.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214359791 25440 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2008 02:09:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:09:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 25 04:10:36 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KBKSw-0004BV-Si for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:10:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45877 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KBKS7-0003L3-F2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:09:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KBKRr-00037g-U6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:09:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KBKRp-00034O-RC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:09:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56275 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KBKRp-00033h-9X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:09:25 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]:60360) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KBKRo-0004Ur-CM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:09:24 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E8BCA4E45E; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:04:34 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:41:16 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:99884 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>>> Do you care about this? If so, how about this: make truncate-lines an >>>> obsolete alias for `line-wrap-method', which accepts the values >>>> `edge-wrap', `word-wrap', and `truncate', with t equivalent to >>>> `truncate' and nil equivalent to `edge-wrap'. >>> >>> Yes, that sounds very good (I'd have said `char-wrap' rather than >>> `edge-wrap', tho). > >> One big disadvantage, though: truncate-lines is used very widely in the >> Lisp code. Replacing them would be rather annoying. > > I don't see much of a problem with it. That's what > define-obsolete-variable-alias is for, isn't it? Leaving these calls in place would generate plenty of byte-compiler warnings, unless we do defvaralias instead of define-obsolete-variable-alias. Anyway, isn't it a general policy to change the code in Emacs to use non-obsolete names?