Re: Line wrap reconsidered

[Yuan Fu]

> On May 26, 2020, at 12:31 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Ihor Radchenko <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,
>>  address@hidden
>> Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 11:59:21 -0400
>> 
>>> I don't understand what you mean by "not wrap the table".
>> 
>> He means to truncate the lines in the table but wrap them in the rest.
> 
> But then why do we need to mark text with some property?

I think he means that, in such a file:

BODY TEXT…
BODY TEXT…

| LONG TABLE |
| LONG TABLE |

BODY TEXT…
BODY TEXT…

We only truncate lines in LONG TABLE, and wraps BODY TEXT. There is no way to 
know if some text is table or body without major mode adding text properties to 
distinguish them.

Yuan