wrapping behavior [Was: union type is EVIL EVIL EVIL]
>>>> "BW" == Ben Wing <wing(a)666.com>
writes:
it's useful to compile with union type to catch problems, as
stephen mentions, but it has such a propensity to create random crashes due to compiler
bugs, which often appear like xemacs problems, that people who don't have a good idea
of its uses should not use it.
it's similar with c++ but there are other advantages ... for
example my recently-introduced bad-gcpro-catching code. note also that it's possible
to catch insufficient gcproing using c++, but somewhat difficult. i put in a comment to
this effect in my kkcc patch.
Ignore for a second the content of Ben's posting and look at the
formatting (hopefully some hook won't wrap his lines when I send this
message). I don't know of a way to have XEmacs automatically wrap these
long lines. Is there a way?
I know about `auto-fill-mode' and `sc-auto-fill-region-p', but that's
not what I'm talking about. In Notepad and in most (all?) of the other
Windows programs that display text, if you turn on word wrap, *all text*
is wrapped, no matter how it gets into your window. (I don't know how
other Linux programs that display text behave because I use XEmacs
almost exclusively for text.)
In addition, on Windows, adding text in the middle of a wrapped line
flows the text automatically. In XEmacs I have to manually re-fill the
paragraph.
Do other people think this is an issue?
I wouldn't be surprised to hear that it would take a lot of work, but
IMHO this is one of the two things that make XEmacs inferior to Notepad
and Wordpad. The other is not being able to handle multiple,
proportionally spaced fonts on a single line along with different styles
(bold, italic, etc.)
Is there any hope of getting really automatic word wrapping?
--- Vladimir
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