On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 09:33 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
Matt Price <address@hidden> writes:
Visual-line-mode is a replacement for longlines-mode; it soft-wraps
text at the screen boundary, and does a much better job than
longlines-mode did.
I think you're confused by a (helpful) conflation.
The ‘visual-lines-mode’ is indeed a replacement for ‘longlines-mode’,
but its job is to cause editing commands to act on visual, rather
than
logical lines.
The wrapping behaviour you're describing is performed by ‘word-
wrap’, a
buffer-local variable that cuases lines to be visually broken at word
boundaries.
The ‘word-wrap’ variable is set by ‘visual-lines-mode’, which is why
you're seeing it happen. But ‘word-wrap’ is independent of this.
that's very helpful. but see below...
Is that what you needed? I'm not sure where the code for
visual-line-mode lives -- there isn't a visual-line.el anywhere
that i
can find on my system.
Fortunately, ‘visual-line-mode’ appears to be a distraction from what
you're describing; Carsten only needs to learn about ‘word-wrap’.
would you expect then that i should see the same difficulty if I
evaluate '(word-wrap 1) in a buffer using org-indent-mode? Because
when
I do that, the wrapping seems to occur as expected and, importantly,
the
indentation level is preserved too. So to my extremely unpracticed
eye
it seems that visual-lines-mode does something to the wrapping
behaviour
that makes problems for org-mode.
Does anyone else use visual-=line-mode with org? I'm sort of
surprised
no one would -- it seems a completely obvious choice to me and it
may be
that I'm just missing something about optimum work flows or similar.