From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why is there no M-x word-wrap? Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:34:48 +0800 Message-ID: <87k3zluewn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4FCE41B9.5020500@dogan.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1338964507 11670 80.91.229.3 (6 Jun 2012 06:35:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 06:35:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Deniz Dogan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 06 08:35:06 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Sc9ph-00039l-4t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 08:35:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53007 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sc9pg-0002xD-D8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:35:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38761) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sc9pa-0002vH-1c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:35:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sc9pY-0001Gb-Fa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:34:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:36516) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sc9pY-0001GX-Bx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:34:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [155.69.18.130] (port=51255 helo=ulysses) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sc9pW-0006ee-4F; Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:34:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4FCE41B9.5020500@dogan.se> (Deniz Dogan's message of "Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:28:25 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150791 Archived-At: Deniz Dogan writes: > As I understand it, the right way to turn on so called word wrapping > in Emacs is by doing (setq word-wrap t). This isn't very > user-friendly in my opinion. > > Why is there no command named `word-wrap' which toggles this mode? It > can really throw newbies off telling them to do M-: (setq word-wrap t) > and if that's not enough, I find it kind of annoying myself. Users probably want to use M-x visual-line-mode, which apart from enabling word-wrap also redefines commands to act visually. I added a note to the docstring of word-wrap.