From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Reitter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display-based word wrapping Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:08:07 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87y74x9rfl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <485EB031.7050502@gmail.com> <87prq9i503.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214172506 29077 80.91.229.12 (22 Jun 2008 22:08:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:08:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 23 00:09:11 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 1KAXkD-0003fn-9I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:09:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45088 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KAXjN-0004nM-IW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:08:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KAXjJ-0004nF-3g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:08:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KAXjI-0004n3-BM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:08:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51809 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KAXjI-0004n0-5r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:08:12 -0400 Original-Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:46606) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KAXjH-0007tZ-Sl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:08:12 -0400 Original-Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id l31so314445ugc.48 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:08:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:cc:message-id:from:to :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version :subject:date:references:x-mailer; bh=r0GEVvTR51qc65Y6lbeUtwJyagHhVabJL7He7ifmmzM=; b=BnJES5heIrTuPjOS6XkdZcT8CzJvn8mg+VWMWQXrqypMhDY59cYTelfOkLeOCbM1k1 +H5IrstJIGpz3LBKo/y8qXRzC57jMENBXilkR8gCvGtNsJRWigwAHcVAAZHIUTAV+Grm OOI5y+ZzKFe5NP/I0e45qw5FgGjJyKkj8N6Z4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=cc:message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references :x-mailer; b=C24guqgKhJf9XQOgjNNx/Le/ZSg8DYYE/sIPWEds2CjEZUQOiP7+siY9dN4yooleMp leUM+Ayi079Mmi8/rtsQl+TuMWUgXYAluCyLDEi02x4mZ5I3klYoRiLXZWNKwHgqbYlv TdYLltqcKxgRXpHyFIw8JCdh/7dHYswnIYdAY= Original-Received: by 10.66.236.13 with SMTP id j13mr1602329ugh.7.1214172489770; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:08:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ?10.0.0.102? ( [62.31.8.254]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q40sm27948398ugc.6.2008.06.22.15.08.08 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:08:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87prq9i503.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.924) 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:99727 Archived-At: On 22 Jun 2008, at 21:33, Chong Yidong wrote: >> >> Yes, I would find this quite impractical to not have a >> wrap-column'. I do not want to resize windows just to edit text in a >> comfortable way. > > Introducing a wrap-column variable is almost exactly the same as > changing the window width, or equivalently the right fringe width. I > don't see the advantage in further complicating this part of the > code to > introduce a new way to do the same thing. How does the specification of a wrap column work with variable-width fonts?