From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: D. Goel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: true "word wrap" Date: 04 Dec 2002 13:42:22 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87r8cxhbht.fsf@computer.localdomain> References: <8765u94qep.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039027496 26364 80.91.224.249 (4 Dec 2002 18:44:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 18:44:56 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18JeVx-0006qm-00 for ; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 19:44:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JeX7-0002KY-00; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 13:46:05 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: #5@=vrmx5t3mZaPY8(mR.n+V#:%4NW7j5A&^}@lGp2rK;CQ4%iH1v'gh/^A)w5*6c&R2(P' 4+seYDq8OK'LPI/C(C^A*w|f*t+8,'T8b#_0~h3!A7GoVroE[cr0Fb'A0%SdU|Lk@gBV&1vA User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 18 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:107732 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4282 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4282 Matt Armstrong writes: > Is there a way to get "true" word wrap in emacs? I.e. not > auto-fill-mode and not (setq truncate-lines nil), but 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. :-( Not sure I interpreted your post correctly, but this sort of untrue ;) word-wrap is provided by longlines.el, IIRC http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LongLines DG http://deego.gnufans.org/~deego/ --