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: visual-line-mode Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:21:34 -0400 Message-ID: <87tzeq8nn5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <85E9BC5B-7337-4CD4-A783-6B2FAEBAEBCA@gmail.com> <87tzf6c5il.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87abgxx0ju.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4D997CA8-A2ED-4E12-9F91-76E98AE95210@gmail.com> <87prpsjhre.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <375C0006-2B47-4B1F-9EB2-ED47941C2DB3@gmail.com> <87od56tp4o.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <71C2D50C-1680-4ADD-A7E3-7B7A1146B85D@gmail.com> <87ej61n19h.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87vdzdr6f6.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87fxqhpblm.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87iqvdrq92.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <41BE2BC8-BA2A-449E-B42A-25AA21AD7B22@gmail.com> <87y7486tux.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <85ej60ru6t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216182124 2532 80.91.229.12 (16 Jul 2008 04:22:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:22:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Reitter , Emacs-Devel devel , "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , Miles Bader To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 16 06:22:51 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 1KIyXP-0001oB-T7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:22:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33877 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KIyWX-0005LR-Ee for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:21:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KIyWS-0005LB-Dh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:21:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KIyWQ-0005Kw-1s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:21:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60577 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KIyWP-0005Kt-TA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:21:45 -0400 Original-Received: from c-24-63-201-57.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([24.63.201.57]:14109 helo=furry) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KIyWI-0005q4-7c; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:21:38 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 44597C054; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:21:35 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:49:54 -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:100779 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> If you are editing a novel where every paragraph is written without >> newlines, wrapping just being done to accommodate the editing window >> (but irrelevant for the result), you want to be able to edit and >> navigate with finer grained units than whole paragraphs. > > Agreed. That's why I think we need a separate minor mode for it. Could someone suggest another name for the minor mode? visual-line-mode does not seem quite accurate.