Re: word-wrap and wrapping before window-width

[Stefan Monnier]

>> There’s an minor issue of how to display word-wrapped lines
>> while the window is scrolled horizontally.  Currently,
>> horizontal scrolling simply inhibits word-wrap.
> What other GUI application does something different in this case?

If the word-wrapped lines are wrapped at a text-specified column rather
than "at the end of the window", then it would make a lot of sense, to
just keep the lines "wrapped as before" and just visually shift them
according to the horizontal scrolling.

It might also make sense to consider that a "wrap-column" which is set past
the window-width would cause those lines to be displayed as "truncated
and wrapped".  E.g. display it as:

   +---------+
    here is t|he example|
    wrapped t|ext       |
             ^          |
       window border    |
                        |
                        ^
                   wrap-column

IOW, the wrapping would be window (and hscrolling) independent.

And a "truncated line" could then "simply" be a line with an "infinite"
wrap-column.


        Stefan