From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
Cc: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Display-based word wrapping
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:24:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873an52jmd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E7285F8F-1E25-4D35-8CA9-621364F7D82B@gmail.com> (David Reitter's message of "Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:08:07 +0100")
David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com> writes:
> On 22 Jun 2008, at 21:33, Chong Yidong wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, I would find this quite impractical to not have a
>>> wrap-column'. I do not want to resize windows just to edit text in a
>>> comfortable way.
>>
>> Introducing a wrap-column variable is almost exactly the same as
>> changing the window width, or equivalently the right fringe width. I
>> don't see the advantage in further complicating this part of the code
>> to introduce a new way to do the same thing.
>
> How does the specification of a wrap column work with variable-width
> fonts?
In the current patch that I'm working with, the wrap occurs at the
window edge, calculated using pixel positions. So it DTRT with respect
to variable-width fonts.
If a wrap-column is introduced, it will probably specify a number of
pixels equal to N standard-width columns.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-22 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-22 19:54 Display-based word wrapping Chong Yidong
2008-06-22 20:04 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-22 20:33 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-22 20:54 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-22 22:08 ` David Reitter
2008-06-22 22:24 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-06-22 23:45 ` David Reitter
2008-06-23 0:32 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-22 20:12 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-22 22:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-22 23:40 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-23 1:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-23 2:04 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-23 16:42 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-23 18:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-22 23:38 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-23 0:25 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-23 0:22 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-23 1:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-23 1:51 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-23 2:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-23 2:40 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-23 18:24 ` Stefan Monnier
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-06-24 18:06 Chong Yidong
2008-06-24 18:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-24 19:54 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-24 20:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-24 21:52 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-25 1:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-25 1:46 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-25 3:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-25 2:04 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-25 3:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-25 18:14 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-25 18:58 ` Stefan Monnier
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