Re: org-startup-truncated default should be nil [legibility 2/6]

[Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>]

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.