From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: longlines-mode and visual-line-mode Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:27:51 +0100 Organization: University of Cambridge Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243862917 14344 80.91.229.12 (1 Jun 2009 13:28:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 13:28:37 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 01 15:28:33 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 1MB7Z2-0001IN-R9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:28:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47046 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MB7Z1-0001j1-9b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:28:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MB7Yi-0001g2-3c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:28:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MB7Yc-0001dg-L3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:28:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38525 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MB7Yb-0001cu-EX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:28:05 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:50746 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MB7Yb-0004o2-32 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:28:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MB7YX-0002Uy-6g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:28:01 +0000 Original-Received: from smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk ([193.60.95.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:28:01 +0000 Original-Received: from sdl.web by smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:28:01 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:m8K9vxR8lM0eGPrVpp3V1zDA6XI= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:111245 Archived-At: On 2009-06-01 06:14 +0100, MON KEY wrote: > Respectfully, I'll be taking that one with a not too small lump of > salt given your initial inquiry: > > "After briefly trying these two modes, I haven't found any significant > difference between them." That's my initial impression at the first time when I was trying to decide which one is better to use. Other people's comments have made me aware of llm's defects, which you can see yourself. Anyway, I believe the following is useful but still missing in v-l-m, a variable to control the width, i.e. if it is positive integer, it controls the length of the line, otherwise it is the distance from the window edge to the right-most char of the line. Leo