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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: visual-line-mode tweaks
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:27:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr5p1rpj3.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d40ldd2z.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:06:12 +0900")

> I think it's fine if minor modes _interact_ in some way that helps the
> user, but I think such interaction should be dynamic (so for instance,
> if I turn visual-line-mode off again, auto-filling should once again be
> enabled; one could do this by saving previous state or whatever, but
> that gets messy and flaky).

Messy and flaky and indeed some of the words that come to mind.

> How about having auto-fill-mode be a nop when visual-line-mode is
> enabled (so the change would be to auto-fill-mode instead of
> visual-line-mode)?

That just moves the problem.  I'd rather live with the current situation
where the problems are a logical consequence of the user's configuration
rather than the result of magic DWIM behavior.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-04 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-03  7:19 visual-line-mode tweaks Miles Bader
2010-02-03 14:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-03 14:48   ` Teemu Likonen
2010-02-04  1:06   ` Miles Bader
2010-02-04  5:18     ` Teemu Likonen
2010-02-04 15:27     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-02-03 16:56 ` Davis Herring
2010-02-05 18:14 ` Andrey Paramonov

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