Re: word-wrap and wrapping before window-width (was: bug#19462: shr: use wrap-prefix when possible, instead of filling the text)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 09:17:55 -0500
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> I would actually welcome a new text-property which lets the wrap-column
> be set locally to a different value (ideally, this should also allow
> specifying that some part of the text should be word-wrapped while
> others should be truncated).

This is too vague.  On what text will this property be put?  E.g., it
cannot be on the part that could be after the wrap point, so it will
probably have to be on the first character of a line.

Next, what is the extent of text for which this takes effect?  IOW,
where does this setting end?

There are also issues with cursor placement and continuation
glyphs/bitmaps.

This  all needs to be decided before it can be implemented.

And of course, it doesn't fix Lars's use case, because he needed to
fit several "columns" of text inside a window-width.  Wrapping at some
column is not enough for that.