From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: true "word wrap"
Date: 07 Dec 2002 12:15:55 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hedqh638.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8765u94qep.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com
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!
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...
-Miles
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-07 3:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-04 17:58 true "word wrap" Matt Armstrong
2002-12-04 18:42 ` D. Goel
2002-12-07 3:15 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2002-12-07 7:09 ` Matt Armstrong
2002-12-07 14:14 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-12-07 20:40 ` Michael Herman
2002-12-07 21:30 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-12-07 23:35 ` Michael Herman
[not found] ` <mailman.6.1039293639.3906.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-12-07 23:45 ` Bijan Soleymani
2002-12-09 21:13 ` Kevin Rodgers
2002-12-08 3:19 ` Miles Bader
2002-12-07 7:13 ` Bijan Soleymani
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