From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: fill length of visual line mode
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 11:58:34 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141004.115834.416226893935804906.hanche@math.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsij4rh30.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> (2014-10-03 21:20:07 UTC)]
> I'm not opposed to a patch that would let it obey fill-column
> (optionally). But it does beg the question: what if the window is
> smaller than fill-column? Should it then fill at the window's edge or
> should it continue as if truncate-lines is set?
Filling at the window's edge is the only reasonable option, IMO.
The behaviour of web browsers was mentioned earlier. But you have the
CSS property max-width to modify that. I have – and frequently use – a
bookmarklet that lets me set the max-width property on the body
element in order to improve readability. It beats adjusting the
browser window itself.
Perhaps emacs could have a variable max-fill-column which, when set,
could govern visual line mode in this way? If set to t, it would mean
use the value of fill-column. Or if set to a number, ignore
fill-column and use the number itself. It shouldn't be allowed to
override fill-column in the other use cases, though. Perhaps
visual-line-max-fill-column would be a better name, if perhaps a bit
unwieldy.
– Harald
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-04 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-02 7:48 fill length of visual line mode Ivan Kanis
2014-10-02 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-03 21:19 ` Johan Bockgård
2014-10-04 7:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-04 17:16 ` Johan Bockgård
2014-10-02 15:50 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-03 20:39 ` Ivan Kanis
2014-10-03 21:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-04 9:58 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen [this message]
2014-10-04 15:45 ` Drew Adams
2014-10-04 14:23 ` Ivan Kanis
2014-10-04 22:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-05 7:59 ` Ivan Kanis
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