Re: flyspell + longlines: hang/wait

[Kim F. Storm]

"Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:

>     To distinguish paragraph breaks from newlines (without meaning),  
>     LaTeX uses double newlines.
>
>     For Emacs it would just mean that only hard newlines are saved, but  
>     not the ones that are purely visual.
>
> Sorry, that is out of the question, as I've said already.
> Paragraphs must not be saved as single long lines in files.

IMO, that's a religious statement, not something you can justify with reason.

>     What was the reason for that again?
>     Other editors use this without problems.
>
> Which are these other editors?  I bet they are closed systems,
> designed with the expectation that the text will only be accessed
> through that editor.

You're wrong.  "vi" handled this easily (wrapmargin).

> That's not the basis for designing Emacs.

So why bring it up?

There are millions of files out there with text that is wider than the
80 columns that some Emacs old-timers seem to worship like the holy grail.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk