From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: visual line mode Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:03:00 +0200 Message-ID: <831uh47y1n.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1350025008261-266925.post@n5.nabble.com> <838vbc85dy.fsf@gnu.org> <87a9vsjcsl.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <1350038115945-266940.post@n5.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1350039819 10892 80.91.229.3 (12 Oct 2012 11:03:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:03:39 +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 Oct 12 13:03:44 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TMd1r-0006m3-9G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:03:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39492 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMd1k-00082W-NH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 07:03:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43037) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMd1a-000829-O5 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 07:03:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMd1W-00044y-OY for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 07:03:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:39520) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMd1W-00044s-Gq for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 07:03:22 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MBS00L00187LQ00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:02:59 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MBS00LGK1CZ0JC0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:02:59 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <1350038115945-266940.post@n5.nabble.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:87195 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 03:35:15 -0700 (PDT) > From: drain > > >>> Also, why is the default to have wrapping in the middle of words? > >> > >> It isn't. visual-line-mode wraps between words, except when a single > >> word is wider than a line. > > > > But visual-line-mode is not the default. (That's how I've interpreted > > the question.) > > > > Bye, > > Tassilo > > Indeed, that's what I meant: why isn't visual line mode the default? Because Emacs is first and foremost a programmer's editor, and wrapping lines in a buffer that shows program source is a bad idea.