Re: Longlines mode in menu

[David Reitter]

On 12 Jun 2008, at 16:05, Chong Yidong wrote:
> The display-time work wrapping won't necessarily help.  It would
> interfere with commands that expect soft newlines to behave like
> newlines (next-line, etc).

Internally, they would move to the next paragraph, which is the next  
line in the underlying file.  That may well be the correct behavior.
This is not any different from `truncate-lines' being nil, with the  
occasional line wrapped.

Things like C-n can be changed to actually move to the next line.
For Aquamacs I have written code that moves to the next (visible) line  
and places the cursor as close (horizontally) as possible.  This is  
also relevant when using variable-width fonts.  I'd be more than happy  
to contribute that.


> One way to fix this might be to selectively bind search-spaces-regexp
> during font-lock, if longlines mode is on.

Well, sure.  You can patch up things here and there to deal with  
longlines-mode.  Of course this would work for this specific bug.