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: longlines-show-hard-newlines - should not the default be t? Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:38:49 -0400 Message-ID: <87zlpent92.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <485DA2E7.3010207@gmail.com> <87d4ma2s3c.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <485DAA77.1040507@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214098746 7915 80.91.229.12 (22 Jun 2008 01:39:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:39:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 22 03:39:50 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KAEYY-0004vo-4J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:39:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58384 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KAEXj-0007fp-43 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:38:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KAEXb-0007bh-72 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:38:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KAEXa-0007an-BV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:38:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49009 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KAEXa-0007aX-3S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:38:50 -0400 Original-Received: from c-24-63-201-57.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([24.63.201.57]:11781 helo=furry) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KAEXZ-0003Qs-U9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:38:50 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4FB10C054; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:38:49 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <485DAA77.1040507@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:27:19 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:99659 Archived-At: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: >>> I think the default value should be t. I think longlines can be quite >>> confusing otherwise. >> >> That runs into problems when the buffer is displayed in of different >> widths. This is one of the two main limitations of longlines mode (the >> other being the font-lock problem discussed before). > > I am sorry, but I did not follow that discussion. What are the problems? Sorry, I was confused. I thought you meant longlines-wrap-follows-window-size. But yeah, regarding longlines-show-hard-newlines: what Miles said.