From: Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-startup-truncated default should be nil [legibility 2/6]
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 09:30:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87imklgifs.fsf@alphapapa.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAMUm490CUtAHfU2CQc-nXaJANJ-sWtmQ2tyJcURe5Hc79RyC5g@mail.gmail.com
Texas Cyberthal <texas.cyberthal@gmail.com> writes:
>> visual-line-mode and toggle-truncate-lines are basic Emacs commands
>> that all users should learn early.
>
> Visual lines, logical lines etc is a complicated mess that Spacemacs
> avoids entirely. I recall fiddling with it and never being satisfied,
> until adopting Spacemacs solved it. Now I know even less about it than
> I did then, because there's no need to know. A brief investigation
> shows Spacemacs sets (line-move-visual t) in prosey text modes, so
> that C-n next-line operates on visual lines. However commands such as
> C-e operate on logical lines: mwim-end-of-line-or-code. This is a sane
> default that permits fluid navigation of paragraphs, which is all a
> noob wants to do.
>
> Similarly, I almost never use truncate-lines, to the point that I had
> to websearch to recall what it was called within the last week.
If I understand correctly, you're arguing that defaults should be
changed because you don't understand how Emacs works, and since you use
Spacemacs, you don't even care how it works.
May I suggest that you propose your changes on the Spacemacs repo.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-05 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-04 21:36 org-startup-truncated default should be nil [legibility 2/6] Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-04 23:26 ` Samuel Wales
2020-02-05 2:43 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-05 3:49 ` Samuel Wales
2020-02-05 4:02 ` Samuel Wales
2020-02-05 4:09 ` Samuel Wales
2020-02-05 15:30 ` Adam Porter [this message]
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2020-02-06 2:33 Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-06 6:55 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-06 7:15 ` Fraga, Eric
2020-02-06 9:46 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-06 10:16 ` Fraga, Eric
2020-02-06 10:51 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-06 11:17 ` Fraga, Eric
2020-02-06 12:09 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-06 12:40 ` Fraga, Eric
2020-02-06 21:21 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-06 21:38 ` Fraga, Eric
2020-02-06 23:33 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-07 0:37 ` Corwin Brust
2020-02-07 1:06 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-07 4:27 ` Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-04 4:08 Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-04 7:05 ` Adam Porter
2020-02-10 7:00 ` Bastien
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