From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Display-based word wrapping
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:41:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy74ul2d6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ej6mxzzp.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:52:10 -0400")
>>> The name `truncate-lines' does not give any hint that it controls word
>>> wrapping too.
>>
>>> Do you care about this? If so, how about this: make truncate-lines an
>>> obsolete alias for `line-wrap-method', which accepts the values
>>> `edge-wrap', `word-wrap', and `truncate', with t equivalent to
>>> `truncate' and nil equivalent to `edge-wrap'.
>>
>> Yes, that sounds very good (I'd have said `char-wrap' rather than
>> `edge-wrap', tho).
> One big disadvantage, though: truncate-lines is used very widely in the
> Lisp code. Replacing them would be rather annoying.
I don't see much of a problem with it. That's what
define-obsolete-variable-alias is for, isn't it?
> There's also the matter of what to do with `toggle-truncate-lines'.
This has 2 issues: the name of the command, and its functionality.
I think we'll find that once we figured what is the right fix for its
functionality, the naming issue will be easy to solve.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-25 1:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-24 18:06 Display-based word wrapping Chong Yidong
2008-06-24 18:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-24 19:54 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-24 20:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-24 21:52 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-25 1:41 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-06-25 1:46 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-25 3:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-25 2:04 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-25 3:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-25 18:14 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-25 18:58 ` Stefan Monnier
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-06-22 19:54 Chong Yidong
2008-06-22 20:04 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-22 20:33 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-22 20:54 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-22 22:08 ` David Reitter
2008-06-22 22:24 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-22 23:45 ` David Reitter
2008-06-23 0:32 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-22 20:12 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-22 22:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-22 23:40 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-23 1:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-23 2:04 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-23 16:42 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-23 18:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-22 23:38 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-23 0:25 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-23 0:22 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-23 1:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-23 1:51 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-23 2:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-23 2:40 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-23 18:24 ` Stefan Monnier
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