From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Armstrong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: true "word wrap" Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 00:09:59 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87fztauwxk.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> References: <8765u94qep.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> <87hedqh638.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039284612 20620 80.91.224.249 (7 Dec 2002 18:10:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 18:10:12 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18KjOm-0005Ju-00 for ; Sat, 07 Dec 2002 19:09:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18KjAj-0006Nu-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Dec 2002 12:55:25 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!west.cox.net!cox.net!nntp2.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp3.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.speakeasy.net!news.speakeasy.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 02:00:07 -0600 Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:r4iWydmraYjaDWhvgZSthF9hxew= Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.81.100.235 Original-X-Trace: sv3-sH5qABluqx9/ss24auxM+j8df8MSw1IIedDeTp5ppnPQklq1YI9srH13eyyNqLIZusPn6hJDPaE6dge!z09KeEY2vGKIb68+NJt1m3QEKYa0UheehCw+81wxgPAXMswvwfwtCMhL+YeiYZJZCe34XQRpmfM+!qEXizwzMjnhnvtlN Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:107829 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4380 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4380 Miles Bader writes: > Matt Armstrong writes: >> something similar to (setq truncate-lines nil) that wraps the display >> on word boundaries. >> >> The dominance of Visual C++'s ability to do this in its editor has >> made 80 column source code a rarity where I work. :-( > > Surely line-wrapped source-code looks like crap, regardless of whether > it's wrapped on character- or word-boundaries! This is also for viewing various text files edited by Mac/Windows programs that like to think that paragraphs and not lines are terminated by end of line characters. Really, there is no fundamental reason why Emacs shouldn't support editing like this. > Or does Visual C++ do something more clever, like correctly > indenting line-wrapped source-code according to the context? That > would be sort of cool, but pretty hard to implement... That'd be way too cool for Visual C++... ;-)