Subject: bug#46814: 26.3; Visual-line-mode produces fake newline if line begins with space

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 20:24:57 +0200

> From: "Miguel V. S. Frasson" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 13:30:23 -0300
> 
> In visual-line-mode, if after leading whitespace it follows very long
> text without spaces, it occurs a visual line break after the leading
> whitespace, creating an false blank line, annoying users because extra
> blank lines may change the meaning of text.
> 
> It would be more sensible in visual-line-mode forbids visual line breaks
> after leading whitespace, because they always create blank lines.

Patches are welcome to implement this.  Word of warning: the current
implementation of this is in C, as part of the display engine, and
it's very complex.