Subject: Re: bug#31666: Bad interaction between visual-line-mode and wrap-prefix on long lines

From: Stephen Berman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 09:02:15 +0200

On Thu, 31 May 2018 20:19:49 -0400 Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Clément Pit-Claudel <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> That's a good point, the behavior that I dislike doesn't even require
>> adaptive-wrap or a wrap-prefix property.  Just having a few spaces at
>> the beginning of a line and a very long word is enough.
>
> Is it the same as Bug#11759?

Sounds like it.  This is also an issue in todo-mode, which by default
enables visual-line-mode and indents with wrap-prefix.  For example,
here both items have no space after the date, but the second one is too
long for the window, so Visual Line mode breaks it:

1 [May 31, 2018] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/
2 [May 31, 2018] 
   http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=c0a0351249c1e6a9307224d
   8337ff8916f4cf138

It would be nice if the display could be like this:

1 [May 31, 2018] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/
2 [May 31, 2018] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=c0a035124
   9c1e6a9307224d8337ff8916f4cf138

Steve Berman