Re: word-wrap and wrapping before window-width

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>> From: Ivan Shmakov  Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 15:01:47 +0000

 >> There’s an minor issue of how to display word-wrapped lines while
 >> the window is scrolled horizontally.  Currently, horizontal
 >> scrolling simply inhibits word-wrap.

 > What other GUI application does something different in this case?

        Firefox.  Provided that the properties are set that way, of
        course.  For one thing, <pre /> elements’ content gets truncated
        unless fits into its respective place (or gets adorned with a
        scrollbar, or otherwise spills over its neighbor) by default,
        while all the rest get folded.

        Please consider the HTML document MIMEd, for instance, – it
        should show three of these cases.

 > Word wrap and horizontal scrolling are 2 different ways of coping
 > with the same problem, so does it really make sense to have them both
 > at the same time?

        Yes.

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This sentence is long enough and will be folded, per the p element default rendering.

This sentence is also long enough, but will not be folded, thanks to an explicit white-space: pre property setting.

This sentence is not much smaller, but will also not be folded, per the pre element default rendering.