From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: longlines-mode and visual-line-mode
Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 18:11:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xbai4ov1qjt5.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7b501d5c0905310926l8d441cdqfdf14f8a1b3647f@mail.gmail.com> (Deniz Dogan's message of "Sun, 31 May 2009 18:26:38 +0200")
On 2009-05-31 17:26 +0100, Deniz Dogan wrote:
> 2009/5/31 Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> After briefly trying these two modes, I haven't found any significant
>
>> difference between them. It looks like longlines has all the features
>> for visual-line-mode. Is my impression correct? Thank you.
>>
>
> This is not the case, as I understand it. For an example, fill a
> buffer with a very long line in longlines-mode and resize the window.
> Then turn it off and switch to visual-line-mode and resize the window.
> Notice the difference! visual-line-mode turns on word-wrap (a
> variable) which is what gives this differente behaviour.
>
> IIRC, longlines-mode is/was a hack which was introduced due to the
> lack of something like word-wrap in earlier versions of Emacs.
After (setq longlines-wrap-follows-window-size 10), I haven't noticed
any difference.
Could you elaborate the different you were referring to? Thanks.
Leo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-31 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-31 16:05 longlines-mode and visual-line-mode Leo
2009-05-31 16:26 ` Deniz Dogan
2009-05-31 17:03 ` Miles Bader
2009-05-31 17:11 ` Leo [this message]
2009-05-31 17:17 ` Deniz Dogan
2009-05-31 17:21 ` David Reitter
2009-05-31 17:55 ` Leo
2009-05-31 21:21 ` Chong Yidong
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-06-01 0:53 MON KEY
2009-06-01 2:27 ` Leo
2009-06-01 14:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-06-01 5:14 MON KEY
2009-06-01 9:55 ` tomas
2009-06-01 10:01 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-06-01 13:27 ` Leo
2009-06-03 3:09 MON KEY
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