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 12:01:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <874jlc7ifu.fsf.ref@yahoo.com> <874jlc7ifu.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24580"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:PbO5ZHmid594zYFLSpsCsR//b3o= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 07 18:27:00 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 1qT34O-0006Cq-8H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2023 18:27:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qT33R-0002Ce-7k; Mon, 07 Aug 2023 12:26:01 -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 1qT2gH-0005tw-Gs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2023 12:02:06 -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 1qT2gG-0003fh-26 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2023 12:02:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qT2gB-0002g2-OC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2023 18:01:59 +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 12:26:00 -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:308417 Archived-At: Po Lu writes: > adaptive-wrap makes the wrapping of comments within buffers > aesthetically pleasing, but doesn't offer any true functional advantage > other than that. > > I think we should seek to distribute it and many other analogous small > packages with Emacs itself, since these minor niceties will never > provide a sufficient advantage for users to purposefully install them > from ELPA. I am learning about this package for the first time and I find it quite minor, but nice. I agree, it should be in core Emacs, it's such a minor improvement that it's hard to justify taking the effort to install it. It seems especially useful for small displays (such as on Android). I wonder if adaptive-wrap should be on by default? Or maybe many modes should set a wrap-prefix overlay themselves? ----- Tangent: 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