From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: visual line mode Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:36:33 +0200 Message-ID: <87sj9jj51a.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <1350025008261-266925.post@n5.nabble.com> <838vbc85dy.fsf@gnu.org> <87a9vsjcsl.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <1350038115945-266940.post@n5.nabble.com> <7D26BCC2-3CEA-4109-878F-FEB13D2EED2B@Web.DE> <1350038885303-266943.post@n5.nabble.com> <395879E8-FD2F-4487-850D-0B2CECE37DF5@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1350042013 30025 80.91.229.3 (12 Oct 2012 11:40:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:40:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 12 13:40:20 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1TMdbI-0005wu-Bz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:40:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55777 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMdbB-00037s-DH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 07:40:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39107) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMdb3-00032g-Db for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 07:40:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMdax-0008OT-Hc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 07:40:05 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:45219) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMdax-0008OP-Aw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 07:39:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TMdb1-0005pB-Vm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:40:03 +0200 Original-Received: from tsdh.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.67.142]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:40:03 +0200 Original-Received: from tsdh by tsdh.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:40:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: tsdh.uni-koblenz.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vPoFO0U7UnT+wpFjXJT2MVyAKB4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:87198 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa writes: >> Can you elaborate? > > I can't see where lines end and where new line starts. The fringe indicators help. > Cursor behaviour/moving in the text is strange. Depends. I use visual-line-mode when I need to write LaTeX documents with other people that always write a paragraph on one line, and basically everybody that doesn't use Emacs does so. In those situations, VLM is really an improvement. It's even better with `adaptive-wrap-prefix-mode' (package adaptive-wrap in ELPA). Bye, Tassilo