GNU bug report logs - #19661
wrapping before window-width (new wrap-column text property?)

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Message #29 received at 19661 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 19661 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19661: wrapping before window-width (new wrap-column text
 property?)
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:08:33 +0100

> That'd be a kludge-around.  I thought we were talking about teaching
> Emacs new layout tricks, not overloading existing ones with features
> they weren't designed to support.

Layouts should be handled at the Elisp level.  Where exactly and how is
a matter of taste.  Currently, windows can provide a tiled layout only.
For example, having (multicolumn) text flow around an image is tedious.
So this would be just an incentive to provide different window layouts
(or layers).

> We all know the subtle problems in
> follow-mode, right?

Which we would have to solve anyway.  I wouldn't reinvent the wheel.

martin

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