From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display word wrapping Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 19:54:38 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085720263 11018 80.91.224.253 (28 May 2004 04:57:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 04:57:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri May 28 06:57:38 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BTZR4-0003WI-00 for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 06:57:38 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BTZR3-0004lu-00 for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 06:57:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BTZDk-0005bp-7g for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 28 May 2004 00:43:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BTZDV-0005ah-LE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 May 2004 00:43:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BTXy7-0007zo-Ac for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 May 2004 23:24:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BTUhr-0002lF-CL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 May 2004 19:54:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BTUhq-0002mU-HY; Thu, 27 May 2004 19:54:38 -0400 Original-To: Miles Bader In-reply-to: (message from Miles Bader on Wed, 26 May 2004 19:02:19 +0900) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:24056 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24056 I've always thought that since the display engine does `proper' wrapping for variable-width characters already (variable-width fonts, tabs, etc), which really seems to work awful darn well, maybe it wouldn't be too hard to trick it into treating words in the buffer as `characters' for wrapping purposes. I am not sure what those words mean. Do you mean word-wrapping at redisplay time without use of real newline characters? This causes problems, not just for C-n, but for all editing facilities that have something to do with newlines. So I think we should try a different approach. I think we should do this by extending auto-fill instead, making it seamless, so that the buffer has real text with real newlines.