Re: adaptive-wrap

[Spencer Baugh]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
>> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2023 12:01:51 -0400
>> 
>> This would be nice in combination with some kind of dynamic
>> line-wrapping which simulates joining lines.  Then comments would
>> appear as if they've been filled to the screen width, no matter what
>> the actual fill-column and screen width is.  Which would be nice on
>> small displays.
>> 
>> By dynamic word-wrapping I mean something which would display:
>> 
>> foo foo foo foo foo foo foo
>> foo foo foo foo foo foo foo
>> 
>> as
>> 
>> foo foo foo foo foo
>> foo foo foo foo foo
>> foo foo foo foo
>> 
>> on a 20-character width display.  Instead of the default display
>> behavior:
>> 
>> foo foo foo foo foo
>> foo foo
>> foo foo foo foo foo
>> foo foo
>
> Dynamic wrapping is incompatible with hard newlines.  Don't use
> newlines except between paragraphs, and word-wrap we have in Emacs
> will do what you want.

But of course that is not the style used for comments in the Emacs
codebase (and most others); most programmers hard-wrap their text with
hard newlines to comply with line length limits.