Re: Line wrap reconsidered

[Ihor Radchenko]

>> There is no way to know if some text is table or body without major mode 
>> adding text properties to distinguish them.
> Of course, there is: the major mode is the one that creates the table,
> doesn't it?  So the mode knows where the table is.

I think we misunderstand each other here.
I suggest to tell Emacs display backend not to wrap some text if the
text has certain text property.
Then, putting that text property is a way for a major mode to mark
unwrappable text.
The marked text may not necessarily be a table (table is just an
example). Other cases include, for example, extremely long lines, which
would slow down Emacs if wrapped. 


Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Yuan Fu <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 12:43:57 -0400
>> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,
>>  address@hidden,
>>  emacs-devel <address@hidden>
>> 
>> There is no way to know if some text is table or body without major mode 
>> adding text properties to distinguish them.
>
> Of course, there is: the major mode is the one that creates the table,
> doesn't it?  So the mode knows where the table is.

-- 
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
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