Re: Display-based word wrapping

[Stefan Monnier]

> I've checked in Kim F. Storm's display-based word-wrapping patch, with
> some modifications.  The word-wrapping is controlled by the `word-wrap'
> per-buffer variable.  It is a form of continuation line, so e.g. will
> not be performed if lines are truncated rather than continued.

Why did you choose a separate variable rather than reusing truncate-lines?

> I have also changed truncate-partial-width-windows to accept integer
> values specifying a window width below which to truncate lines, and
> changed the default to 30.

Since the Emacs-22 default was t, I think a safer new default (other
than t) would be something around 70-80, so it behaves as before for
80 column frames.


        Stefan