Re: visual line mode

[Tassilo Horn]

drain <aeuster@gmail.com> writes:

> What's the best way to enable this in every mode, under all
> conditions, as the default?  Right now I have a bunch of hooks for el
> / C / org, etc., but not shell or dired.

Put (global-visual-line-mode) in your ~/.emacs.

> Also, why is the default to have wrapping in the middle of words?
> (probably a question for Emacs devs).

Then the text is displayed as-is.  With word wrapping, you cannot judge
how many whitespaces are between the last word on line N and the first
word on line N+1.

Bye,
Tassilo