Re: [Orgmode] Smart(er) word wrapping with org-mode and visual-line-mode

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jan 6, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Martin Pohlack wrote:

> Hi Matthew,
>
> Matthew Dempsky wrote:
> > While playing around with the different options for handling word
> > wrapping in org-mode, I decided to instead hack an extension that
> > improves visual-line-mode's word wrapping when used in conjunction
> > with org-mode.  In particular, the mrd-org-smartwrap minor mode
> > automatically sets the `wrap-prefix' property on all section  
> > headlines
> > and plain list entries so that visual-line-mode's native word  
> > wrapping
> > looks identical to what careful and continual usage of TAB and M-q
> > should produce, without any of the quirks of using auto-fill-mode or
> > refill-mode.
> >
> > Just thought I'd share in case anyone else found it useful /  
> > interesting.
>
> I just tried this out (only for headlines up to now) and it seems to
> work great.

> Are there any plans to integrate something like this into upstream?
> Especially the wrapping of headlines would enable extensive tag usage.

I have been thinking about that, but not arrived at a conclusion.  One  
thing is the interaction with org-indent-mode.  That mode already does  
the wrapping for headlines correctly by adding `wrap-prefix', and it  
will look really good if you set the variable word-wrap to t.   
However, the showstoppers are the following:

1. I cannot bring myself to turn off truncate-lines, because it
   messes up tables and code examples badly, and these are major
   components of my work.  I have actually put in a feature
   request into Emacs for a property `truncate-line', to be
   able to control this line by line.  I got positive feedback,
   but I don't know when any of the developers finds time
   to implement it - I cannot do that myself.

2. Visual-line-mode is also a no go for me, I use keyboard
   macros a lot and need to be able to rely on the fact that
   [down] move the cursor into the next physical line.

So I am not sure how to handle this.  We could turn Matthews
code into a module that users can turn on if they wish.

- Carsten


>

> Cheers,
> Martin Pohlack
>
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- Carsten