From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: please make line-move-visual nil Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:29:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87eiue83i7.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <87my92dmdt.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <87eiudewtq.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <831vqdubqy.fsf@gnu.org> <6161f3180905270548t3012bc1ah161719ae01db0fb5@mail.gmail.com> <5f0ff9220906010736paad9321td86fd52326ebe722@mail.gmail.com> <87oct7sur8.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243906199 17806 80.91.229.12 (2 Jun 2009 01:29:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 01:29:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "'T.V. Raman'" , 'Chong Yidong' , "'Andrew W. Nosenko'" , emacs-devel@gnu.org, 'ishikawa' , ams@gnu.org, stephen@xemacs.org, eliz@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 02 03:29:53 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MBIp6-0002eo-OK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:29:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57545 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MBIp5-0007Ul-MI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:29:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MBIp0-0007UO-PB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:29:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MBIov-0007Rs-Dq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:29:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46741 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MBIov-0007Rp-5Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:29:41 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:40318 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MBIos-0004Cs-O7; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:29:38 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApQFAP8cJEpFpZIv/2dsb2JhbACBT8p/hAwFhgU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.41,287,1241409600"; d="scan'208";a="39464963" Original-Received: from 69-165-146-47.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.146.47]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 01 Jun 2009 21:29:35 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E1DB57FB6; Mon, 1 Jun 2009 21:29:35 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 1 Jun 2009 16:18:55 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:111277 Archived-At: > Try it: M-x local-set-key n next-line. Narrow the Dired window so file > names wrap. At this point I already notice that the wrapping makes the buffer unreadable/ugly, which is why the real answer is not to change line-move-visual but truncate-lines. > Do you really think `line-move-visual' is a good fit here? No worse than the other choice, actually. > No? No, and the same is true for other buffers where newline chars and > line length matter. That's your taste. Which is why you should set line-move-visual to nil. Stefan