Re: true "word wrap"

[Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com>]

Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com> 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.  :-(

I'm not sure but you might be thinking of the fact that many editors
move by screen lines instead of logical lines. That really helps when
you have lines that are wrapping 3 or 4 times. However having code
wrap on words instead of in the middle of them doesn't make THAT much
of a difference.

I don't know if emacs has a mode for moving by screen lines instead of
logical lines. But if it doesn't it shouldn't be too hard to
implement.

Bijan