Re: fill length of visual line mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Johan Bockgård <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 23:19:39 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> From: Ivan Kanis <address@hidden>
> >> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 09:48:12 +0200
> >> 
> >> I just enabled visual line mode today. I have started using it to
> >> display gnus article. I noticed that the fill happens at the width of
> >> the Emacs window. I set fill-column to 70 and I was expecting it to wrap
> >> there.
> >
> > That's not how word-wrap was designed and implemented.  It works more
> > like Web browsers, i.e. it wraps at the window edge.
> 
> The original word wrap patch by Kim did support wrapping at a specified
> column, but this feature was removed when the code was integrated into
> Emacs.

If so, bringing that back should be easier, as the code to do that is
probably archived somewhere.