Re: visual-line-mode and line wrapping

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

>> Hi Stefan, My use for it would be that, occasionally, I want to enlarge
>> the Emacs window for some purpose or the other. (For instance, to see
>> more of email summary lines. Or, even the mode line. Do you use
>> which-func-mode?)

> Wanting to view a PDF document or some such wide object seems to be
> another legitimate reason to widen an Emacs frame.

But a PDF document doesn't need wrapping.  And you can still split
a window if/when you switch from the PDF to something else.

In any case, I'd be interested in a patch which adds some kind of
wrap-width buffer-local variable, but it needs to also be obeyed in
windows that are narrower than wrap-width.


        Stefan