Re: display word wrapping

[Karl Eichwalder <ke@gnu.franken.de>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> I agree that word-wrapping in display would be useful for viewing
> unfilled files.

Gnus comes with various so called washing functions.  But even for
editing word-wrapping is important

> However, that raises the question of how we design Emacs with both
> line-breaking and word-wrapping without making that somewhat
> confusing.

I think the issue must be checked case by case.  Editing wikipedia
articles is an interesting case.  A mode for editing the Emacs wiki is
already available, but last time I tried (approx. 6 months ago) this
mode didn't work that good for wikipedia.org articles.

I know several people who are interested in using Emacs as an editor
for wikipedia.org.  accessing the article over http isn't that
important - you can use Emacs as an external editor for webbrowsers -
but dealing with the articles' source texts is.

Such an article looks as follows
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park ):

<table align = right width = 400><tr><td>[[image:Centralpark.jpg]]</table>
[[de:Central Park]] [[sv:Central Park]]


'''Central Park''' is a very large [[park]] (843 acres = 3.4 km², a rectangle of 2.5 miles/4 km by one-half mile/800 m) in [[Manhattan]], [[New York, New York|New York]], [[New York]], [[United States]].  An oasis for Manhattanites escaping from their [[skyscraper]]s, the park is well-known worldwide after its appearance in many movies and television shows.


The park was designed by [[Frederick Law Olmsted]] and [[Calvert Vaux]], who later created [[Brooklyn, New York|Brooklyn]]'s [[Prospect Park]]. While much of the park looks natural, it is in fact highly landscaped. It contains several artificial [[lake]]s, extensive [[walking track]]s, two [[ice-skating]] rinks, a wildlife sanctuary, and [[pasture|grass]]y areas used for myriad [[sport]]ing pursuits, as well as [[playground]]s for [[child]]ren. The park is a popular oasis for migrating [[bird]]s, and thus is popular with [[bird watcher]]s. The 9.7 km road circling the park is popular with joggers, bicyclists and [[inline skate]]rs, especially on weekends when automobile traffic is banned.

[...]
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Of course, more contructs are allowed; e.g., lists:

*point 1
*point 2
*point 3

and, the horror, tables:

{|
| entry 1 | entry 2|
|-
| entry 3 | entry 4|
|}

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