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Re: Turn on longlines in text modes [patch]
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David Reitter |
Subject: |
Re: Turn on longlines in text modes [patch] |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:12:14 +0100 |
On 19 Jul 2005, at 06:39, Chong Yidong wrote:
Just a note: longlines mode should not be used with auto-fill-mode
on. In
fact, longlines-mode explicitly turns off auto-fill-mode.
Seems logical. But if it does so, shouldn't it turn it back on then
(i.e. to the previous value) when it's deactivated?
At least when text-mode-auto-fill is on...
The reason longlines-wrap-follows-window-size is nil by default is
that it
can produce unexpected behavior when the buffer is simultaneously
displayed in two windows with different widths. Longlines will wrap
using
the width of one of the windows, and the results will look strange
in the
other window. There doesn't seem to be an easy way out of this, as
far as
I know.
In addition to what David K suggested, it might be possible to just
wrap the text to the smallest of all window widths. That's not the
ideal solution, but still better than just wrapping all text to some
arbitrarily predefined line length by default.
By the way: longlines-mode (with longlines-wrap-follows-window-size)
seems to wrap to early when using a variable-width font. Since
variable-width fonts are predominantly used in text (as opposed to
code) writing contexts, and that's where longlines-mode plays an
important role, it might be a good idea to think about a fix.
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