From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: visual-line-mode and line wrapping Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 13:09:46 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274785865 2635 80.91.229.12 (25 May 2010 11:11:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 11:11:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , Leo To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 25 13:11:03 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGs2E-0006K8-E0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 May 2010 13:10:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35908 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OGs2A-0002tN-Lr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 May 2010 07:10:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58435 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OGs1x-0002rh-Ay for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 May 2010 07:10:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGs1r-0000VL-RF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 May 2010 07:10:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-yw0-f194.google.com ([209.85.211.194]:37470) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGs1Q-0000RV-J2; Tue, 25 May 2010 07:10:08 -0400 Original-Received: by ywh32 with SMTP id 32so2966332ywh.5 for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 04:10:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=NUqoTeJnxxlu/vXR6cBA/Mxv1fsBeMCBXRfQnrxBp00=; b=TvwFrxRs/y3XTrEiJpNTrYrdzq3pB+cCVcTTLosxVZ4ULuAxq/ikkuNIpqssh52bc3 rJS4jU6srHs+T0I19/Xv8C76+DD9xveEOzVZoVahZSCBtoBfZv87LwbCkLsTOgpzPlGA V3ZF1OkgxMnv+mLGxxYxNqUJzOsBF/gvHbDbc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=aH62qcGY2l8Jmh4HKR/u9T5/Z1gCT/y0O9Lblj93ki/RhLqrAXvDmKnJM4so8DH/MR WqF/dHU3N+SA53gxIvo054yV3gAwuM17QhiRFJHjclTQ50fhM14tnwtU7UeluL8+u1/M M/9BGGJCXV3V+4lRIjAqUtK3x985lR0hFxexQ= Original-Received: by 10.101.10.9 with SMTP id n9mr8031942ani.113.1274785806226; Tue, 25 May 2010 04:10:06 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.100.177.20 with HTTP; Tue, 25 May 2010 04:09:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/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:125238 Archived-At: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Miles Bader wrote: > > Also, it would be nice if one could bound the width used for wrapping so > that when a window becomes wider than a certain size, the wrapping width > would stick at some maximum -- this is because extremely wide paragraphs > can be hard to read. This is in the solution I mentioned. > Similarly, when windows become narrow than some > width, it would be nice if wrapping actually respected some _minimum_ > width, so that you don't end up with the text in a single narrow > vertical line (the text is probably unreadable either way, but at least > with the bounded-width version, you can get a more sensible idea of the > document structure). I never thought of that. Will add it.