From: Dmitry Alexandrov <dag@gnui.org>
Cc: Radu Butoi <rbutoi@gmail.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Comfortably display text in a wide frame (was: MIME issue: can't set encoding on mail or mml-to-mime)
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 18:34:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tv0h9pq9.dag@gnui.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871rnu6z4i.fsf@no.workgroup> (Gregor Zattler's message of "Fri, 08 May 2020 20:49:17 +0200")
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Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> wrote:
> * Radu Butoi <rbutoi@gmail.com> [2020-05-06; 18:37]:
>> There should be an option to soft-wrap incoming long lines to your preferred width for any reasonable client, as is the default in emacs, as well as the web page displaying the archives of these lists.
>
> thanks, your email finally motivated me to search for such thing and I found "Notmuch Wash Wrap Lines Length" and configured it.
>
> Much better now.
I bet, itʼs a port of aforeimplied ‘gnus-treat-fill-long-lines’ and is not window-width-aware. That is, if the current window is narrower than preconfigured fill-column, it still dumbly wraps on that column. Let alone following window resizing, when the message is already displayed.
In other words, thatʼs rather a workaround, than a proper solution, which should rely on same display machinery, that soft-wraps lines longer than window.
Actually, depending on how you manage _system_ windows, it may make perfect sense to automatically shrink the frame displaying your MUA to a comfortable width.
Or, if resizing frames is not convenient for you (or even impossible, as on TTY), Iʼd suggest to use major-mode-agnostic ‘visual-fill-column-mode’ (not part of GNU Emacs, available on Melpa). The following configuration bits are for Gnus, but you got the idea:
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-15 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-05 21:39 MIME issue: can't set encoding on mail or mml-to-mime Radu Butoi
2020-05-06 7:52 ` Gregor Zattler
2020-05-06 15:10 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-06 15:34 ` tomas
2020-05-06 22:37 ` Radu Butoi
2020-05-06 22:41 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-08 18:49 ` Gregor Zattler
2020-05-15 15:34 ` Dmitry Alexandrov [this message]
2020-05-06 18:01 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-05-06 22:34 ` Radu Butoi
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