Re: longlines mode and kill-line: missing space between boundary words

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

martin rudalics wrote:
>  > In longlines mode when I press C-k (i.e. a kill-line command) in a
>  > long paragraph with soft linebreaks and then press C-y to yank the
>  > killed line somewhere, the spaces between the words on soft-broken
>  > lines' boundaries disapear.
>  >
> ...
>  >
>  > I guess after kill-line the longline mode automatically compresses the
>  > soft-linebreak at the end of the line (because the space is
>  > temporarily turned into a soft linebreak) and the information about
>  > the space does not get into the kill ring.
> 
> Yes.  `kill-line' kills the line without the newline and longlines mode
> removes the newline character after that.
> 
>  > The consistent behaviour would be either to add the missing space to
>  > the kill ring or (it that is impossible or too hard) to kill the whole
>  > paragraph at once (since it in fact is a single line). The first
>  > behaviour clearly looks better to me.
> 
> I'm afraid that it's hardly possible to DTRT here.  Adding the space is
> not quite correct since `kill-line' doesn't kill the newline character
> which substitutes the space.  Note that you get a similar bug when you
> kill the line + the newline character.  Reinserting the killed stretch
> will get you a hard newline instead of the soft one.
> 
> Killing everything up to the next hard newline appears conceptually
> right.  It would clash, however, with the current concept that a line
> for `kill-line' is pretty much a line as it appears on the screen.
> Moreover, `kill-line' would have to become aware of longlines' way of
> distinguishing soft and hard newlines.

Would it make sense for longlines mode to have a local keymap in which
C-k was bound to a new command (named longlines-kill-line, of course)
that is aware of longlines' way of distinguishing soft and hard
newlines?

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA