Re: wrapping behavior

Vladimir> Sounds like this is where a user option is needed. BTW, Er, you have it. Open up the Tools -> Packages -> Install menu, install VM, use it. Most of the time, this kind of option does not belong in Emacs proper, but in the application program. If you want Emacs to act like Memopad, write a (minor) mode to emulate Memopad. Or maybe it's already been done. Look into "hard" newlines. This is a device where newlines are marked according to whether they were entered by the user (with the Return or Enter keys)---hard, or by the software in word wrap mode---soft. I have no idea whether it actually works as you want or not but the feature is there. Vladimir> I don't think the solution is for XEmacs to _add_ Vladimir> linebreaks, but for the display code to be smart enough Vladimir> to wrap. No chance. This is not something that should be done by the redisplay code. It's just not possible to get it right without both understanding the semantics of the buffer content and reading the user's mind about preferences. Not to mention that in the example you gave, you were looking at something that doesn't conform to the recommended format for its application (ie, < 78 character lines) and could easily be illegal if it got another couple hundred characters longer. Having display cover that up would almost certainly result in XEmacs generating similarly broken mail, which is not to be tolerated. If you want the display to be different from what's in the file, use either an indirect buffer or a separate presentation buffer as VM does, or a more complex hack like the one used by preview-latex. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.