On 3 Aug 2008, at 15:47, David Reitter wrote:

> On 10 Jul 2008, at 15:55, Chong Yidong wrote:
>
>>> Incidentally: how would one turn on word-wrap for the echo area?   
>>> Word
>>> wrapping for `message' would be very useful.  (It could even be the
>>> default.)
>>
>> This is controlled in xdisp.c.  Let's worry about it later.
>
> Should we revisit and fix this issue now while it's early in the  
> pretest phase?


It's a simple change.  Is this trouble-prone, or can it be installed  
now?


Index: xdisp.c
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RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/src/xdisp.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1245
diff -c -r1.1245 xdisp.c
*** xdisp.c	8 Aug 2008 15:43:45 -0000	1.1245
--- xdisp.c	11 Aug 2008 13:33:36 -0000
***************
*** 8320,8325 ****
--- 8320,8326 ----
   	sprintf (name, " *Echo Area %d*", i);
   	echo_buffer[i] = Fget_buffer_create (build_string (name));
   	XBUFFER (echo_buffer[i])->truncate_lines = Qnil;
+ 	XBUFFER (echo_buffer[i])->word_wrap = Qt;

   	for (j = 0; j < 2; ++j)
   	  if (EQ (old_buffer, echo_area_buffer[j]))