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Re: fill length of visual line mode
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Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
Re: fill length of visual line mode |
Date: |
Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:50:10 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Ivan Kanis wrote:
> I just enabled visual line mode today. I have started using it to
> display gnus article. I noticed that the fill happens at the width of
> the Emacs window. I set fill-column to 70 and I was expecting it to wrap
> there.
This is http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=18589 .
(Presumably wrote a blog post or something and this is now flavour of
the week.)
> There is a hack [1] by James Wright to make it work by expanding the
> right margin of the buffer's window.
See comments at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-12/msg00495.html .
The code you quote seems mostly OK, but I don't know who wrote it, so
I can't just install it, for copyright reasons.
If someone can rewrite it and submit a patch, or if the original author
can submit the patch, I'd be happy to install the feature.