Re: Upcoming merge of adaptive-wrap

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
> Cc: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>,
>  Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 12:26:17 +0100
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 26 2024, Kévin Le Gouguec wrote:
> > * 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).
> 
> 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?