On 11 Jul 2008, at 17:23, David Kastrup wrote:
>
> I think it depends on what you use it for.  If you are editing code,
> there is usually little overflow, and the overflow you have ends at an
> easily recognizable place, and the hard newlines carry meaning.
>
> If you are editing a novel where every paragraph is written without
> newlines, wrapping just being done to accommodate the editing window
> (but irrelevant for the result), you want to be able to edit and
> navigate with finer grained units than whole paragraphs.

Agreed.  That's why a visual-line-mode makes sense on top of Stefan's  
patch.  It would be good to enable it by default in text modes.