On 9 Jul 2008, at 23:05, Chong Yidong wrote:
>
> The patch is rather long, but it's on cvsweb:
>
> http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/emacs/src/xdisp.c?root=emacs&r1=1.1227&r2=1.1228
> http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/emacs/src/xdisp.c?root=emacs&r1=1.1229&r2=1.1230

OK, with this patch, my previous issues are still present:

 > There's also a problem with posn-x-y, which returns a position too  
far when given coordinates that are to the right of a word-wrapped  
line (i.e. in the blank space).  > This can also be seen if you just  
click into that space (mouse-set-point).

Also, I'd appreciate some assistance from somebody with this:

 > I'm not sure about "fields", perhaps because I don't know much  
about their implementation.  Can you point me to a test case?   
Customize buffers perhaps?

Incidentally: how would one turn on word-wrap for the echo area?
Word wrapping for `message' would be very useful.  (It could even the  
default.)

The latest version of visual-line.el can be found here:

http://aquamacs.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/aquamacs/aquamacs/src/site-lisp/visual-line.el