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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: adaptive-wrap
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2023 19:49:51 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h6paol00.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ierbkfi6du8.fsf@janestreet.com> (message from Spencer Baugh on Mon, 07 Aug 2023 12:01:51 -0400)

> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2023 12:01:51 -0400
> 
> This would be nice in combination with some kind of dynamic
> line-wrapping which simulates joining lines.  Then comments would
> appear as if they've been filled to the screen width, no matter what
> the actual fill-column and screen width is.  Which would be nice on
> small displays.
> 
> By dynamic word-wrapping I mean something which would display:
> 
> foo foo foo foo foo foo foo
> foo foo foo foo foo foo foo
> 
> as
> 
> foo foo foo foo foo
> foo foo foo foo foo
> foo foo foo foo
> 
> on a 20-character width display.  Instead of the default display
> behavior:
> 
> foo foo foo foo foo
> foo foo
> foo foo foo foo foo
> foo foo

Dynamic wrapping is incompatible with hard newlines.  Don't use
newlines except between paragraphs, and word-wrap we have in Emacs
will do what you want.



  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-07 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <874jlc7ifu.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
2023-08-06  7:12 ` adaptive-wrap Po Lu
2023-08-06  7:20   ` adaptive-wrap Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-06  7:24     ` adaptive-wrap Po Lu
2023-08-07 16:01   ` adaptive-wrap Spencer Baugh
2023-08-07 16:49     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-08-07 20:40       ` adaptive-wrap Spencer Baugh
2023-08-08 10:59         ` adaptive-wrap Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-07 16:50     ` adaptive-wrap Ihor Radchenko
2023-08-07 20:42       ` adaptive-wrap Spencer Baugh
2023-08-10  5:37     ` adaptive-wrap Po Lu
2023-08-09 17:34   ` Pixel Fill + Justify Madhu
2023-08-10  7:12     ` Eli Zaretskii

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