GNU bug report logs - #46814
26.3; Visual-line-mode produces fake newline if line begins with space

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Message #8 received at 46814 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Miguel V. S. Frasson" <mvsfrasson <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 46814 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46814: 26.3;
 Visual-line-mode produces fake newline if line begins with space
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 20:24:57 +0200

> From: "Miguel V. S. Frasson" <mvsfrasson <at> gmail.com>
> 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.

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