From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Deniz Dogan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: global-visual-line-mode Word Wrap Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:50:56 +0200 Message-ID: <4E20B640.7080903@dogan.se> References: <32070159.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310766762 14832 80.91.229.12 (15 Jul 2011 21:52:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:52:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 15 23:52:39 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QhqJK-0004dq-R0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:52:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44723 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QhqJJ-0000VC-Nd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:52:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43357) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QhqI1-0000V0-JC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:51:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QhqI0-0007Sj-N4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:51:17 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp05.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.153.6]:59062) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QhqI0-0007Sa-7R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:51:16 -0400 Original-Received: from c80-216-105-155.bredband.comhem.se ([80.216.105.155]:61224 helo=[192.168.0.10]) by ch-smtp05.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QhqHl-0004y9-Im for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:51:03 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: <32070159.post@talk.nabble.com> X-Originating-IP: 80.216.105.155 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1QhqHl-0004y9-Im. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp05.sth.basefarm.net 1QhqHl-0004y9-Im dcbfec2ced79dcd9f49732debb567162 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.76.153.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81608 Archived-At: On 2011-07-15 19:47, spinner wrote: > > I have (global-visual-line-mode 1) in my emacs file and it functions fine in > wrapping text that I'm writing that's more readable. But when I go back and > edit what I've written, the wrapping no longer occurs naturally. I've have > to fiddle around to get the line breaks right. The lines are longer than > expected and I then need to do so work to make its appearance consistent and > wrap as expected. > > I'm wondering if there is a solution so I don't need to do this extra work > when editing text. > > I'm not sure, but it sounds to me like you are talking about auto-fill-mode, not global-visual-line-mode. global-visual-line-mode only makes Emacs commands act on visual lines instead of logical (actual) lines. If you indeed *are* talking about auto-fill-mode, it is a feature, not a bug. You can, however, manually "fill" the paragraph you're currently on by hitting M-q. Hope that helps, Deniz