Re: flyspell + longlines: hang/wait

[Kim F. Storm]

"Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:

>     I for my part, don't use grep or more on my LaTeX files very often.  
>     But that'll be different for different people, and I respect that.
>     I hope that eventually, tools like grep, wc and more will move on,  
>     recognizing that there isn't one standard 65 or 80 character wide  
>     terminal any more...
>
> GNU programs such as grep and wc will handle lines of essentially any
> length--to the extent that handling them is meaningful.  What they
> cannot do is make a match in a "line" that is really a paragraph as
> useful as a match in a line that is really a line.

I agree with this.

However, you still fail to explain why you think DTWW (display time
word wrap) as a simple alternative to the normal display of continued
lines is so bad.  

IMHO, breaking long lines at the last whitespace rather than at the
right margin makes things easier to read -- when it happens.  I really
don't see how grep and wc is relevant to the discussion of whether
emacs visible breaks long lines at a space or at a fixed column.

That doesn't mean that DTWW is easy to use in general -- just as
continued lines are not easy to use.

So in my mind, DTWW is not an alternative to e.g. editing with
longlines mode, but on the other hand, I don't understand why you
oppose DTWW support in Emacs.

And I already posted patches to implement DTWW months ago.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk