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Re: [Orgmode] Re: org-indent-mode and visual-line-mode
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Matt Price |
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Re: [Orgmode] Re: org-indent-mode and visual-line-mode |
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Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:12:06 -0500 |
On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 09:33 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Matt Price <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Visual-line-mode is a replacement for longlines-mode; it soft-wraps
> > text at the screen boundary, and does a much better job than
> > longlines-mode did.
>
> I think you're confused by a (helpful) conflation.
>
> The ‘visual-lines-mode’ is indeed a replacement for ‘longlines-mode’,
> but its job is to cause editing commands to act on visual, rather than
> logical lines.
>
> The wrapping behaviour you're describing is performed by ‘word-wrap’, a
> buffer-local variable that cuases lines to be visually broken at word
> boundaries.
>
> The ‘word-wrap’ variable is set by ‘visual-lines-mode’, which is why
> you're seeing it happen. But ‘word-wrap’ is independent of this.
>
that's very helpful. but see below...
> > Is that what you needed? I'm not sure where the code for
> > visual-line-mode lives -- there isn't a visual-line.el anywhere that i
> > can find on my system.
>
> Fortunately, ‘visual-line-mode’ appears to be a distraction from what
> you're describing; Carsten only needs to learn about ‘word-wrap’.
>
would you expect then that i should see the same difficulty if I
evaluate '(word-wrap 1) in a buffer using org-indent-mode? Because when
I do that, the wrapping seems to occur as expected and, importantly, the
indentation level is preserved too. So to my extremely unpracticed eye
it seems that visual-lines-mode does something to the wrapping behaviour
that makes problems for org-mode.
Does anyone else use visual-=line-mode with org? I'm sort of surprised
no one would -- it seems a completely obvious choice to me and it may be
that I'm just missing something about optimum work flows or similar.
Anyway, thanks again,
Matt
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- [Orgmode] org-indent-mode and visual-line-mode, Matt Price, 2009/11/18
- Re: [Orgmode] org-indent-mode and visual-line-mode, Carsten Dominik, 2009/11/19
- Re: [Orgmode] org-indent-mode and visual-line-mode, Matt Price, 2009/11/19
- [Orgmode] Re: org-indent-mode and visual-line-mode, Ben Finney, 2009/11/19
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: org-indent-mode and visual-line-mode,
Matt Price <=
- [Orgmode] Re: org-indent-mode and visual-line-mode, Ben Finney, 2009/11/19
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: org-indent-mode and visual-line-mode, Carsten Dominik, 2009/11/20
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: org-indent-mode and visual-line-mode, Matt Price, 2009/11/20
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: org-indent-mode and visual-line-mode, Carsten Dominik, 2009/11/20
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: org-indent-mode and visual-line-mode, Carsten Dominik, 2009/11/20
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: org-indent-mode and visual-line-mode, Matt Price, 2009/11/20