From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Spencer Baugh Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: adaptive-wrap Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2023 16:40:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <874jlc7ifu.fsf.ref@yahoo.com> <874jlc7ifu.fsf@yahoo.com> <83h6paol00.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33854"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:xWOWDAUd9fNXH31w7NhjegC8zuU= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 08 04:23:33 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qTCNh-0008cv-Ff for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2023 04:23:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qTCMw-0007wF-Sr; Mon, 07 Aug 2023 22:22:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qT769-00046H-Ru for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2023 16:45:05 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qT767-00060b-Sa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2023 16:45:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qT765-0008gI-Mr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2023 22:45:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 07 Aug 2023 22:22:45 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:308427 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Spencer Baugh >> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2023 12:01:51 -0400 >> >> This would be nice in combination with some kind of dynamic >> line-wrapping which simulates joining lines. Then comments would >> appear as if they've been filled to the screen width, no matter what >> the actual fill-column and screen width is. Which would be nice on >> small displays. >> >> By dynamic word-wrapping I mean something which would display: >> >> foo foo foo foo foo foo foo >> foo foo foo foo foo foo foo >> >> as >> >> foo foo foo foo foo >> foo foo foo foo foo >> foo foo foo foo >> >> on a 20-character width display. Instead of the default display >> behavior: >> >> foo foo foo foo foo >> foo foo >> foo foo foo foo foo >> foo foo > > Dynamic wrapping is incompatible with hard newlines. Don't use > newlines except between paragraphs, and word-wrap we have in Emacs > will do what you want. But of course that is not the style used for comments in the Emacs codebase (and most others); most programmers hard-wrap their text with hard newlines to comply with line length limits.