From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Teemu Likonen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Howto turn on longlines-mode in .emacs? Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 09:24:11 GMT Organization: Sonera Customer Message-ID: <87y6t5cnus.fsf@iki.fi> References: <049df466-9c5a-4114-80de-a6b36e4271fe@s20g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> <87zldniucr.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> <87tz3tixxu.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241948807 6356 80.91.229.12 (10 May 2009 09:46:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 09:46:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 10 11:46:38 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M35cE-0004SW-52 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 May 2009 11:46:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59399 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M35cC-0008Fq-Qh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 May 2009 05:46:36 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!feeder2.news.saunalahti.fi!feeder1.news.saunalahti.fi!nntp.inet.fi!central1.inet.fi!inet.fi!read4.inet.fi.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PIOlCnCQXfN/9QiJtVEMh+vqBvY= Original-Lines: 9 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.220.180.181 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@inet.fi Original-X-Trace: read4.inet.fi 1241947451 80.220.180.181 (Sun, 10 May 2009 12:24:11 EEST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 12:24:11 EEST Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169041 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:64305 Archived-At: On 2009-05-10 10:54 (+0200), Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > I would argue that with emacs 23 (and possibly earler), longlines-mode > is no longer great. Just turn off auto-fill-mode and (setq word-wrap > t) instead. This is much more robust, and doesn't interact badly with > some major modes the way longlines-mode does. Or perhaps use visual-line-mode which conveniently sets other related variables too and redefines some movement keys to act on visual lines.