Re: Line wrap reconsidered

[Ihor Radchenko]

> I tried to explain why this is impossible: either those lines will be
> truncated or they will be wrapped (at some character).  There's no
> other possibility.

I understand that it is impossible on master. However, without knowing
much about the Emacs internals, I wanted to mention possible useful
feature to be considered in the proposed patch. Since we discuss
changing display code here, I thought that it would be great if the
change also introduced selective wrapping/truncation. Now, reading your
comment, I assume that selective wrapping/truncation is very hard to
implement. 

Best,
Ihor

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Ihor Radchenko <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>> Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 23:01:33 +0800
>> 
>> I imagine 'cannot_wrap text property. Emacs would never wrap text at the
>> character with 'cannot_wrap property set to non-nil.
>> 
>> All the text in table can have this 'cannot_wrap property set to t.
>> Then, all the lines in the table will never be wrapped, even when
>> truncate-lines is set to nil.
>
> I tried to explain why this is impossible: either those lines will be
> truncated or they will be wrapped (at some character).  There's no
> other possibility.

-- 
Ihor Radchenko,
PhD,
Center for Advancing Materials Performance from the Nanoscale (CAMP-nano)
State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong 
University, Xi'an, China
Email: address@hidden, address@hidden