Re: Word wrap for non-whitespace-seperated language

[Yuan Fu]

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> Would someone please make fill.el work for variable pitch fonts
> and other things that vary from fixed columns?  It is not a small job
> but it is vital for Emacs to advance in the area of formatting.

I’ve got something mostly working, it provides on-the-fly word wrapping that 
supports variable pitch fonts and CJK characters. With minor changes it can be 
also used for filling but I don’t see the point for hard filling variable-pitch 
font text: they display differently in different fonts.

Here is a demo comparing the new wrapper (left) with word-wrap and 
fill-paragraph (right):

Now it works reasonably well in text-mode. But I haven’t give it a lot of test. 
You can M-x sfill-mode in any text buffer to use it.

One small issue is that it is not very fast when wrapping variable-pitch fonts. 
I think most of the time is spent around pos-visible-in-window-p and 
posn-at-x-y. I use them to find the rough place to break the line. Is there 
faster ways to to that? Basically I want to know the point at about certain 
column. Currently I’m using (posn-point (posn-at-x-y …)).

Yuan

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