Re: [vile] Annoying difference between wrapmargin and fillcol

[Paul Fox]

thomas wrote:
 > On Mon, 5 May 2008, Chris G wrote:
 > 
 > > I'm have been using wrapwords and fillcol=70 instead of wrapmargin=10
 > > for the past few weeks and there is an annoying difference between the
 > > ways that the two approaches work.
 > >
 > > When you set wrapmargin=10 then the moment a word *begins* to encroach
 > > into the last ten columns of the window it is moved to the next line.
 > > However when you have wrapwords and fillcol=70 the moving of a word to
 > > the next line only occurs when you complete the word and type a space
 > > after it.  This means that if you happened to complete a line with a
 > > word that extends beyond column 70 and then stop insertion (end of
 > > message, move to somewhere else, whatever) the word isn't wrapped.
 > 
 > offhand, I suppose we could change the behavior of wrapmargin so it's
 > relative to fillcol (though that would be a big change).  Adding a
 > mode to control that behavior would be less impact...

i'm not confident, but perhaps there's a way to cleanly overload
the wrapmargin value so that negative values mean "from the
left".  it's kind of ugly:  -70 would mean column 70.  10 would continue
to mean "10 from the right".

paul
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