From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-n and C-a
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:48:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vdrln48c.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873aerpn4y.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:04:45 -0500")
>> First, it adds a new prefix map bound to `C-x l' for line-oriented
>> commands, and rebinds `count-lines-page' to `C-x l p'.
>
> I don't think we should make this change now. Maybe after the release.
Providing convenient key bindings to toggle these modes mitigates
part of problems.
>> `toggle-word-wrap' is a new command. Actually it's just a copy of
>> `toggle-truncate-lines' that operates on the variable `word-wrap'
>> instead of `truncate-lines'. By analogy with `default-truncate-lines'
>> it also adds a new variable `default-word-wrap'.
>
> This seems OK.
Installed without `default-word-wrap'.
>> The default value of `word-wrap' is changed to t that is the most
>> expected default value nowadays as most editors do. This eliminates
>> the need to enforce enabling word-mode in `visual-line-mode'.
>> The essential point of `visual-line-mode' is only to turn off
>> `truncate-lines' since otherwise it makes no sense. The doc string
>> now says so.
>
> We should not make this change now, but we can do it after the release.
I agree. When I enabled word-wrap globally two days ago, I immediately
discovered a problem in Dired - after copying a file I missed it because
its very long name was wrapped completely to the left side of the dired
buffer where it is hard to notice in an unusual place.
> At that time, someone needs to systematically go through Emacs and see
> if any major modes need to bind word-wrap to nil (word wrap sometimes
> gives sub-optimal results, e.g. in buffers that contain very long
> words).
For starters, the following patch does this for dired-mode:
Index: lisp/dired.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/dired.el,v
retrieving revision 1.421
diff -u -r1.421 dired.el
--- lisp/dired.el 27 Jan 2009 03:53:07 -0000 1.421
+++ lisp/dired.el 8 Feb 2009 00:45:05 -0000
@@ -1744,6 +1744,7 @@
;; case-fold-search nil
buffer-read-only t
selective-display t ; for subdirectory hiding
+ word-wrap nil
mode-line-buffer-identification
(propertized-buffer-identification "%17b"))
(set (make-local-variable 'revert-buffer-function)
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-08 0:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-29 14:32 C-n and C-a Richard M Stallman
2009-01-29 15:10 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-01-29 16:09 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2009-01-29 17:15 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-01-29 19:40 ` Adrian Robert
2009-01-30 0:32 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-30 1:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-30 9:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-31 17:45 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-31 19:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-02 1:45 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-31 20:33 ` Chong Yidong
2009-02-02 1:47 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-30 7:25 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-29 18:24 ` Karl Fogel
2009-01-29 18:48 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2009-01-29 21:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-30 16:07 ` Sascha Wilde
2009-01-31 20:34 ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-30 0:29 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-30 6:12 ` mail
2009-01-31 17:45 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-31 22:35 ` Drew Adams
2009-02-01 20:11 ` Leo
2009-02-03 15:11 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-02-02 1:54 ` Juri Linkov
2009-02-02 2:25 ` Drew Adams
2009-02-02 9:45 ` Juri Linkov
2009-02-06 0:45 ` Juri Linkov
2009-02-06 16:04 ` Chong Yidong
2009-02-08 0:48 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2009-02-08 20:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-09 21:22 ` Christian Schlauer
2009-02-09 22:02 ` Drew Adams
2009-02-10 2:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-10 3:11 ` Drew Adams
2009-02-11 22:45 ` Juri Linkov
2009-02-12 2:01 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-12 10:05 ` Juri Linkov
2009-02-12 11:04 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-13 6:33 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-07 1:52 ` Stefan Monnier
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