bug#18589: Why is the the longlines package obsolete?

[bruce . connor . am]

It would be interesting to extend visual-lines-mode so you can prevent
wrapping of some lines

If I understand things correctly, visual-line-mode only wraps lines when they’re longer than the window-width (or window-width - margins), so making it not wrap some lines would only cause them to extend beyond the window’s boundaries.

adaptive-wrap-mode is another approach at indenting wrapped lines
correctly (but for visual-lines-mode).  I don't guarantee it works well
for LaTeX, tho (I don't think it uses the indent-according-to-mode code,
but rather uses the adaptive-fill-mode code).

Thanks, under a few initial tests, it does seem to fix the indentation!

I wouldn't mind de-obsoleting it.  If you're interested, I think it
would be nice to change longlines.el by adding some hooks to it so you
can cleanly make it work like you do (without overwriting its functions).
Feel like taking over maintainership?

Sure, I could take over. What would that involve?

PS: BTW, I don't understand why people want to use
single-line-paragraphs for "LaTeX under version control". 

Me neither, and I agree with everything you said here. The approach I’m taking is with sentences.

If you give each sentence its own line then, when you change a sentence, the rest of the paragraph doesn’t show up on the diff.

Best Regards,
Artur Malabarba