Re: longlines-mode

[Johan Bockgård]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

> Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> If the defaults are chosen for similarity to other long-lines editors,
>> I'd guess you should turn on `longlines-wrap-follows-window-size' by
>> default.  At least gedit (and notepad.exe, IIRC) do it by default.
>
> I would, if not for the fact that longlines-wrap-follows-window-size
> doesn't behave well when the buffer is simultaneously displayed in two
> windows with different widths.  This is not fixable without C-level
> changes.  There have been discussions about this issue on this list in
> the past, but I don't think it'll be fixed in the immediate future.
> So the current behavior is a compromise.

BTW, Is it time to merge Kim's patch?

  Line wrapping during redisplay
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-07/msg01112.html

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Johan Bockgård