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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 10:36:51 +0300

> Cc: [email-masked]
> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 19:16:12 -0400
> 
> Here breaking at ' ' is useful:
> 
>   Input:
>   123456789
>   xxx aaaaaaa
> 
>   Visual-line mode (good)
>   123456789
>   xxx
>   aaaaaaa
> 
> But not here:
> 
>   Input
>   123456789
>   xxx aaaaaaaaaaaaa
> 
>   Visual-line mode (bad):
>   123456789
>   xxx
>   aaaaaaaaa
>   aaaa
> 
>   What I'd expect:
>   123456789
>   xxx aaaaa
>   aaaaaaaa

What about this case:

  Input
  123456789
  xxxxxxx aaaaaaaaaaaaa

?  Would you rather see this:

  123456789
  xxxxxxx
  aaaaaaaaa
  aaaa

or this:

  123456789
  xxxxxxx a
  aaaaaaaaa
  aaa

?

See also the fundamental problem with what you'd like Emacs to do,
which I described in another message.