Re: line/wrap-prefix patch

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> If my usage above is correct, I think this approach would effectively
> need to be augmented by something like longlines.el.  If I just enable
> word wrapping and set wrap-prefix text properties as above, then as soon
> as I add enough text to force new word wrapping before a position
> indented by the wrap-prefix property, that indentation is lost.  Without
> line wrapping via post-command-hook a la longlines.el I don't see how to
> reliably retain the indentation after such changes in the previous text,
> at least at the lisp level (the alternative would be to integrate
> "adaptive indentation" into redisplay, as you did with "simple"
> indentation).

I'd expect it to be a job for jit-lock.


        Stefan