Re: the future of longlines-mode

[Lennart Borgman]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Chong Yidong<address@hidden> wrote:
> David Reitter <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Will longlines-mode be marked obsolete in Emacs 23.2 and removed in
>> Emacs 24?
>>
>> Warnings could be printed in Emacs 23.2 when `turn-on-longlines-mode'
>> is called, and Emacs 24 could automatically enable `visual-line-mode'
>> in its place.  It is not perfectly compatible, of course, but it
>> probably DTRT for the vast majority of users, while the few others can
>> probably be trusted to install longlines manually as an add-on.
>
> I've been meaning to do that, but first I'd like to implement the
> "specify a wrap column other than the right window edge" feature.  I've
> been too busy to work on this, though.


I am currently changing the margins to do something like that, but
that is a bit shaky. See wrap-to-fill.el:

   http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~nxhtml/nxhtml/main/files/head%3A/util/