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Re: fill length of visual line mode
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: fill length of visual line mode |
Date: |
Thu, 02 Oct 2014 18:16:48 +0300 |
> From: Ivan Kanis <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 09:48:12 +0200
>
> I just enabled visual line mode today. I have started using it to
> display gnus article. I noticed that the fill happens at the width of
> the Emacs window. I set fill-column to 70 and I was expecting it to wrap
> there.
That's not how word-wrap was designed and implemented. It works more
like Web browsers, i.e. it wraps at the window edge.
> There is a hack [1] by James Wright to make it work by expanding the
> right margin of the buffer's window.
>
> I don't feel it should be so complicated to customize this behavior.
>
> Would it be OK to code wrap at fill-column?
Not sure what you mean by your question. Are you asking whether
patches to implement the wrap at fill-column will be accepted? If so,
I'm quite sure the answer is YES.