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#18589
Why is the the longlines package obsolete?
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Reported by: bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:59:01 UTC
Severity: wishlist
Merged with 51051
Fixed in version 29.1
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #20 received at 18589 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> However, from what I understand, visual-line-mode isn't capable of wraping
> lines to be shorter than window width, which was one of longlines' features.
You can get the same result by fiddling with the window margins or by
splitting your window. I seem to remember someone writing code to do
that conveniently, but I wouldn't know where to find it.
> Is longlines-mode really redundant?
visual-lines-mode provides the feature for which longlines-mode was
written, so in this sense it's definitely obsolete/redundant.
Of course, by virtue of working differently, it might provide some
functionality which visual-lines-mode can't provide. But "lines shorter
than the window" is not really one of them.
Recently someone pointed out that using longlines-mode in a buffer that
contain *very* long lines makes it possible to view&edit the buffer
without suffering unbearable performance problems. So maybe in this
sense it's not completely obsolete.
Stefan
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