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: Fri, 28 May 2004 21:44:00 -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 1085810651 2924 80.91.224.253 (29 May 2004 06:04:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 06:04:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: miles@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat May 29 08:04:07 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 1BTwwx-0001KT-00 for ; Sat, 29 May 2004 08:04:07 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BTwww-0004hc-00 for ; Sat, 29 May 2004 08:04:06 +0200 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=mailman.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BTwx1-0001Dy-2k for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 02:04:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BTwwU-0000ro-CJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 02:03:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BTwwS-0000qk-57 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 02:03:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BTwwR-0000qa-Aq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 02:03:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BTww0-0001Ks-4c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 02:03:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BTstE-0004fx-OJ; Fri, 28 May 2004 21:44:00 -0400 Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-reply-to: (storm@cua.dk) 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:24142 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24142 Yes. Even window's notepad can do word wrapping without modifying the buffer text... What happens in Windows (aside from trying to read the files it produces) is not a major design criterion for Emacs or other GNU packages. That is ok for editing, but for reading (e.g. this mail), virtual word wrapping would be much simpler -- and problem-less. I agree that word-wrapping in display would be useful for viewing unfilled files. However, that raises the question of how we design Emacs with both line-breaking and word-wrapping without making that somewhat confusing. Perhaps we can have one command which enables word-wrapping in a read-only buffer and enables filling in a writable buffer.