Re: flyspell + longlines: hang/wait

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Reitter (2005-10-27) writes:

> On 27 Oct 2005, at 02:31, Richard M. Stallman wrote:
>>
>> A paragraph is NOT meant to be a single line, and if it appears as
>> one, that is very inconvenient.
>
>
> Let me give you two examples.
>
> - I've been doing some work in Python lately. Python enforces strict
>   formatting, and you don't have the option of inserting a newline at
>   almost arbitrary (whitespace) positions like in C, for example.

Of course there is such an option.  Just put a backslash in front of
the linebreak.  See
<URL:http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.2/ref/explicit-joining.html>.

> - LaTeX. Sometimes I edit my document with a narrow frame, sometimes
>   with a larger one. Screen real-estate is limited, and I often like
>   to  have several things open to copy/paste etc. Therefore, I'd like
>   text  to be rewrapped to use up the screen.

Personally I think the longer text lines become the more readability
decreases.  So for me a 70-something character limit is desirable even
in a wide frame.

Anyway, keep in mind that the buffer size of TeX is limited.  And that
means the maximal line length which can be processed is limited as
well.  Depending on the value of the limit this can make problems if
you save your LaTeX files with long lines.

-- 
Ralf