Re: Longlines mode in menu

[David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>]

On 5 Jun 2008, at 06:42, Chong Yidong wrote:

> Someone just suggested to me that Longlines mode should have an  
> entry in
> the Options menu of the menu-bar.  This seems reasonable to me: new
> users are likely to come across situations where Longlines mode is
> necessary, but not know of its existence.  Windows notepad has had  
> such
> an item in its menu for a while.


Are you aware that syntax hightlighting is broken with longlines mode?
Any (line-based) comments, e.g. in LaTeX, will make it fail.

When you comment out formulae in LaTeX and they get wrapped in middle,  
parsing fails with consequences for the remainder of the buffer. E.g.,:

%  \begin{quote}
%  $P_e(N_i|C_j)$  is empirically defined as  $F(N_i \&
C_j)/F(C_j)$,
% where $F(N_i \& C_j)$  is the number of times $i$ is needed

It seems that syntax highlighting does not know about soft and hard  
line breaks.

Are there any news on the display-time word wrapping patch by Kim Storm?
Back then when he posted the first incarnation, things almost worked  
as intended.