Re: Upcoming merge of adaptive-wrap

[Po Lu]

Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com> writes:

> * Catching up on the rest of the thread: if the goal is discoverability,
>   I think the most likely remedy long-term (NEWS will only help in the
>   "short" term, until it is rotated into NEWS.30) will be pointers from
>   visual-line-mode's documentation (docstring and/or manual).

I did mention that when I started this thread, didn't I?  :-)

>   Here too, I can't firmly conclude that moving to core is necessary;
>   can the documentation of core features like visual-line-mode reference
>   features found in GNU ELPA, like adaptive-wrap?  If so, I would expect
>   that to offer all the visibility this package needs; at least, not
>   much less than it will get by being moved to core.

There's also the deterrent effect of requiring a download over the
Internet and updates separate from Emacs.