Re: line-line-move-visual: was line motion problem

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

  > >> I don't know how many people actually want them in visual-line-mode
  > >> (I'd like a fringe item at a hard newline, but until this is
  > >> implemented the next best thing is a display-table element for \n).
  > 
  > > We could leave the continuation glyphs, but make them less conspicuous.
  > 
  > For a mode that expects most lines to be wrapped, I see not point in
  > leaving continuation marks.
  > 
  > > To mark hard newlines, try the code below.   I suggest to include this.
  > 
  > >  ;; 2230 = \x8B6
  > > (defvar show-newlines-newline-code (vector (make-glyph-code 2230
  > > blank-newline) 10))
  > 
  > [ Too long a line, huh? ]
  > 
  > My font doesn't seem to know the char 2230, and UnicodeData.txt doesn't
  > seem to know that char either.  So we should probably use something else.
  > 
  > >  (if show-newlines-mode
  > >      (aset buffer-display-table 10 show-newlines-newline-code)
  > >    (aset buffer-display-table 10 nil)))
  > 
  > Better write it as:
  > 
  >  (aset buffer-display-table 10
  >        (if show-newlines-mode show-newlines-newline-code))

whitespace.el already has many many ways of dealing with whitespaces,
wouldn't this mode be a better fit in whitespace.el?