Re: visual-line-mode and line wrapping

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:05 PM, João Távora <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> One problem with the "fringe/margin approach" is that it always exactly
>> tracks physical window size, which is sometimes annoying.  For instance,
>> it would be nice to have word-wrapping that wraps to 80 or 72 columns
>> without having to result to multiple word-wrapping mechanisms (e.g., the
>> old lisp-based modes).
>
> Following this discussion I hacked up a darkroom-mode with the "fringe/margin"
> approach and am quite happy with it. Try it out, it's very small (and
> possibly buggy :-)
>
>  http://pastebin.com/kcmuGjy8

You are welcome to try to enhance the version I have if you want to.