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26.1; visual-line-mode wraps at no-break space

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From: Marvin ‘quintus’ Gülker
 <post+ebugs <at> guelker.eu>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 26.1; visual-line-mode wraps at no-break space
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 16:03:44 +0200

Dear maintainer,

the visual-line-mode minor mode wraps lines at non-breaking spaces
(U+000A0 No-Break Space, NBSP: ' '). It should not do that and instead
treat the sequence of characters before and after the NBSP as one
word. That is, if you have:

    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
                     ^
                   NBSP

Then visual-line-mode will consider the no-break space between 'dolor'
and 'sit' as a possible wrap point, which is contrary to what a no-break
space is meant to achieve.

To reproduce: enable visual-line-mode, write a document that contains a
NBSP, and shrink the window so that its edge hits the NBSP.
visual-line-mode will break the line at the NBSP, albeit it shouldn't.

  -quintus

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Message #8 received at 42811 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Marvin ‘quintus’ Gülker <post+ebugs <at> guelker.eu>
Cc: 42811 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#42811: 26.1; visual-line-mode wraps at no-break space
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 18:02:43 +0300

> From: Marvin ‘quintus’ Gülker
>  <post+ebugs <at> guelker.eu>
> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 16:03:44 +0200
> 
> To reproduce: enable visual-line-mode, write a document that contains a
> NBSP, and shrink the window so that its edge hits the NBSP.
> visual-line-mode will break the line at the NBSP, albeit it shouldn't.

If you set nobreak-char-display to nil, you get the behavior you want.

Message #11 received at 42811 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Marvin ‘quintus’ Gülker
 <post+ebugs <at> guelker.eu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 42811 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#42811: 26.1; visual-line-mode wraps at no-break space
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 07:59:06 +0200

Am Dienstag, dem 11. August 2020 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
> If you set nobreak-char-display to nil, you get the behavior you want.

Indeed, this works. But now the NBSP is not highlighted anymore as a
special character and I won't notice it is in there. Is there a way to
have both the highlighted display and the no-break behaviour?

  -quintus

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Message #16 received at 42811-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Marvin ‘quintus’ Gülker <post+ebugs <at> guelker.eu>
Cc: 42811-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#42811: 26.1; visual-line-mode wraps at no-break space
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 13:33:52 +0300

> From: Marvin ‘quintus’ Gülker
>  <post+ebugs <at> guelker.eu>
> Cc: 42811 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 07:59:06 +0200
> 
> Am Dienstag, dem 11. August 2020 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
> > If you set nobreak-char-display to nil, you get the behavior you want.
> 
> Indeed, this works. But now the NBSP is not highlighted anymore as a
> special character and I won't notice it is in there. Is there a way to
> have both the highlighted display and the no-break behaviour?

I made such a change (on the master branch), not without some
trepidation, as the current behavior is very old (15 years), so I
wonder whether some feature relies on that.  We shall see, I guess.

Note that when nobreak-char-display is non-nil and non-t, we still
produce an ASCII space after the backslash-escape, so the display
engine will still wrap at that spot.  But here, I cannot make the same
change, because the Emacs manual clearly documents this behavior.

Thanks.

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