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29.1; Visual line mode behaves strangely on line with contiguous stretch of whitespace

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Message #21 received at 66599-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 66599-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Rahguzar <rahguzar <at> zohomail.eu>
Subject: Re: bug#66599: 29.1; Visual line mode behaves strangely on line with
 contiguous stretch of whitespace
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 06:57:51 -0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> tags 66599 notabug
> thanks
>
>> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 22:10:43 +0200
>> From:  Rahguzar via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
>>
>> Dear Emacs maintainers,
>>  Starting with emacs -Q
>>  Paste the following lines two lines in the buffer,
>> sage: V = VectorSpace(RationalField(), 3)                                       # optional - sage.modules
>> sage: v = V.gen(1)                                                              # optional - sage.modules
>>
>> Now shrink the window so that these lines cannot fit on one screen line.
>> When this happens Emacs wraps lines strangely. It doesn't break the
>> contiguous stretch of whitespace instead it breaks the word preceding
>> it. I have attached a screenshot of what I see with this email.
>
> 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.

I'm therefore closing this bug report.

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