From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display word wrapping Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 10:46:29 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085824104 24103 80.91.224.253 (29 May 2004 09:48:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 09:48:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: miles@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat May 29 11:48:17 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BU0Rt-00081m-00 for ; Sat, 29 May 2004 11:48:17 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BU0Rs-0001OV-00 for ; Sat, 29 May 2004 11:48:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BU0Rx-0002qU-AD for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 05:48:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BU0Rr-0002qF-8B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 05:48:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BU0Rp-0002q3-F6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 05:48:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BU0Rp-0002q0-Cm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 05:48:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1BU0QV-0004yK-Vw; Sat, 29 May 2004 05:46:54 -0400 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-195-137-77-250.freedom2surf.net [195.137.77.250]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4T9koU9032693; Sat, 29 May 2004 10:46:50 +0100 Original-Received: from NYAUMO (nyaumo.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.27]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D63EDDDD45; Sat, 29 May 2004 10:46:49 +0100 (BST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 28 May 2004 21:44:00 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:24148 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24148 Richard Stallman writes: > Yes. Even window's notepad can do word wrapping without modifying the > buffer text... > > What happens in Windows (aside from trying to read the files it > produces) is not a major design criterion for Emacs or other GNU > packages. Windows Notepad is often held up as an example of the most featureless text editor. I don't think Kim was saying Emacs should copy notepad, the emphasis is on the "even".