FW: Emacs suggestion.

[joe . loiacono]

Hello,

Gerd Moellman suggested that I pass this enhancement request on to this
email address.  Basically, I would like to see a display options that would
wrap long lines at white space (see details below).  I brought this issue up
a couple of years ago (as you can see at the bottom of this email).  At that
time Gerd said that he might consider it when the new redisplay engine was
done for Emacs 21.  Well, now that it is done, I am sending this email as a
reminder, hoping that someone might implement it.

Thanks.

Joe Loiacono

-----Original Message-----
From: Gerd Moellmann [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 5:18 AM
To: Loiacono, Joe
Subject: Re: Emacs suggestion.

Could you please talk with the people at address@hidden, Joe?

I've left the Emacs project last November, and rms is the head maintainer
again.  He and the other maintainers are reading the emacs-devel list,
AFAIK.


-----Original Message-----
From: Loiacono, Joe 
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 1:26 PM
To: 'address@hidden'
Subject: RE: Emacs suggestion.


Hello Gerd,

Now that you have the new display engine, is there a possibility of getting
this enhancement put in?

I am familiar with the options filladapt.el, longlines.el, and maniac.el,
which were suggested to me by Klaus Berndl.  However, this is not what I am
looking for.

Not having this feature is a problem for me when I try to copy and paste
data from other sources (such as email) and want to edit them.  In many
cases, the paragraphs are represented as long lines.  However, in Emacs the
words get broken up at the edge of the window when long lines are wrapped.
I usually end up having to format each paragraph (with <esc> q) to break
each paragraph up in to multiple lines and then make my edits.  When I am
done, I convert them all back to long lines again to get them back into the
same format again.

Thanks.


Joe Loiacono (pronounced Loy-AH-kuh-noh)
Software Design Engineer
Tektronix, Inc.
M/S: 58-590
Phone: 503-627-1051
Fax: 503-627-1004
Email: address@hidden


-----Original Message-----
From: Gerd Moellmann [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 12:49 PM
To: Loiacono, Joe
Subject: Re: Emacs suggestion.


address@hidden writes:

> > There are times however that I may NOT want to fill the long line with
> > hard carriage returns, but still want to treat it as one paragraph.  It
> > would be nice if there were a display option that would allow long lines
> > to wrap while breaking on whitespace.
> > 
> > This option would be for display only.  Internally, it would still store
> > the paragraph as one long line without any hard carriage returns.
> > However, instead of displaying the breaks with a "\" at a particular
> > column, it would break on words.  I suppose you could still put the "\"
> > (or some other character) at the end to indicate that it's wrapping, but
> > the important thing is that you could read the paragraph because words
> > would not be broken into pieces.

Thanks for the suggestion, Joe.  This or something similar might
be a good feature, but it's not trivial to implement.  I'll keep
it in my mind.  Maybe we can do this at some point when the new
redisplay engine of Emacs 21 has stabilized.