Re: the future of longlines-mode

[Chong Yidong]

David Reitter <address@hidden> writes:

> Will longlines-mode be marked obsolete in Emacs 23.2 and removed in
> Emacs 24?
>
> Warnings could be printed in Emacs 23.2 when `turn-on-longlines-mode'
> is called, and Emacs 24 could automatically enable `visual-line-mode'
> in its place.  It is not perfectly compatible, of course, but it
> probably DTRT for the vast majority of users, while the few others can
> probably be trusted to install longlines manually as an add-on.

I've been meaning to do that, but first I'd like to implement the
"specify a wrap column other than the right window edge" feature.  I've
been too busy to work on this, though.