Re: true "word wrap"

[Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com>]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com> writes:
>> something similar to (setq truncate-lines nil) that wraps the display
>> on word boundaries.
>> 
>> The dominance of Visual C++'s ability to do this in its editor has
>> made 80 column source code a rarity where I work.  :-(
>
> Surely line-wrapped source-code looks like crap, regardless of whether
> it's wrapped on character- or word-boundaries!

This is also for viewing various text files edited by Mac/Windows
programs that like to think that paragraphs and not lines are
terminated by end of line characters.  Really, there is no fundamental
reason why Emacs shouldn't support editing like this.

> Or does Visual C++ do something more clever, like correctly
> indenting line-wrapped source-code according to the context?  That
> would be sort of cool, but pretty hard to implement...

That'd be way too cool for Visual C++...  ;-)