Re: Upcoming merge of adaptive-wrap

[Stefan Monnier]

Joost Kremers [2024-01-26 14:47:42] wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26 2024, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
>>> Wouldn't it make more sense to make this simply a configurable option in
>>> visual-line-mode, that defaults to "on"? From a user's perspective, I think
>>> that makes the most sense, doesn't it? At least I personally have always
>>> wondered why this is a separate package and not part of visual-line-mode.
>> What does it mean for this to be a configurable option of
>> visual-line-mode?  How is it different from turning on another minor
>> mode?
> My thinking was that this is something a user would probably want to have
> enabled by default (I do, anyway), and for that, a Configure option seems the
> logical choice.

[ A global minor mode also gives you a Configure option :-)  ]

But should it be tied to `visual-line-mode` (as opposed to, say, the
value of `word-wrap`)?


        Stefan