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From: PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs <Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Someting with Emacs visual-line-mode
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:09:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=1oWxjOS=RSmBnNgKwyO=YTuR5QGKHdkdMU05h@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinF-1MdtOAPM1C3SwEWpp_M_2pCSrK6K_5bGRMR@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 5:46 PM, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 September 2010 17:43, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I do not think he wanted visual line mode to be turned off. Why do you
>> say so? FanQing said the line should break, but that it should break
>> at the last Chinese character before the window boundary..
>
> Isn't that the same behaviour as `truncate-lines' set to `nil'?

The behavior you get with truncate-lines set to nil, word-wrap set to
nil, and visual-line-mode set to t is what I think he's looking for
with respect to Chinese characters.

What he's really asking for is for Chinese characters to not "stick
together" like English (etc.) characters do when word-wrap is on.
That would take me by surprise if I had embedded a few Chinese
characters into some English text I was writing and Emacs broke the
line between them, because I'm not used to seeing words that are
"breakable" but not normally separated by a space.  I don't know what
the best way would be to handle that   I'm sure there are different
rules for different languages that I don't even know about, and all
word-wrap does not is look for the last tab or space.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-14  7:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-13  2:22 Someting with Emacs visual-line-mode fanq
2010-09-13 15:54 ` Tim Visher
2010-09-13 20:58 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-14  0:36   ` PJ Weisberg
2010-09-14  0:43     ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-14  0:46       ` suvayu ali
2010-09-14  7:09         ` PJ Weisberg [this message]
2010-09-14  9:16           ` Lennart Borgman
2010-09-14 10:18             ` suvayu ali
2010-09-15  0:06             ` PJ Weisberg

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