Subject: bug#66599: 29.1; Visual line mode behaves strangely on line with contiguous stretch of whitespace

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 14:08:35 +0300

> From: Rahguzar <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 11:59:56 +0200
> 
> > This is the expected behavior.  Visual line mode never breaks the line
> > in the middle of a stretch of whitespace characters, it always breaks
> > the line at a non-whitespace character _after_ a stretch of whitespace
> > characters.
> >
> > This is not a bug.
> 
> Thanks for clarifying. Is there a way to get a behavior which
> prioritizes not breaking on non-whitespace characters?

Not that I know of, no.  The word-wrap feature of visual line mode is
implemented in C, and the intent there is quite clear.