From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Display-based word wrapping
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:22:37 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87prq9t2ya.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y74x9rfl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:54:06 -0400")
Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
> The original patch included a `wrap-column' variable, but I'd like to
> modify this to use `truncate-lines' instead, as shown below. This would
> mean that word wrap always uses the right window edge as a wrap column.
> Any objections?
Yes -- window width is very often the wrong thing to use. I want to be
able to wrap at say 72 columns and not have to resize my window to
achieve that effect.
Mainly this is because (1) I often want to have window-widths which are
far wider than what's reasonable for readable text (wiiiiide text is
very hard to read), and (2) also for readability I like having a ragged
right margin which gives a bit more whitespace than you would get with
window-edge wrapping (I find right-up-to-the-edge wrapping annoying).
Of course the window width makes a good upper bound, but there
absolutely should be a way for the user to control wrapping at a lesser
point.
[Also, whatever the discussion of defaults ends up turning up, it should
at least be _possible_ to have global setting which causes there to be
no indicators at all for display-time wrapped text.]
-Miles
--
Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words
erroneously repeated.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-23 0:22 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
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 [this message]
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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