the future of longlines-mode

[David Reitter]

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.