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

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Martin Pohlack <mp26@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Smart(er) word wrapping with org-mode and visual-line-mode
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 18:24:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57BC09A2-08C5-43B0-B255-E33EA8ABE4AE@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B44AB80.5070304@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>

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