commit 79ab234039553ca13a770c108c3b75ae28a692bd
parent ba0ef2a8e8f24bfe270ba29a90782ffa02df615e
Author: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 07:51:13 +0100
Add long-standing Emacs itch
Hard wrapping has been stepping on our toes for so long we have become
numb to it. I wonder if I'll live long enough to see the curse
finally lifted.
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/itches/emacs/tracker.org b/itches/emacs/tracker.org
@@ -41,6 +41,16 @@ Fixed by Yamamoto Mitsuharu.
:Role: author
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First reported as [[https://github.com/dgutov/diff-hl/issues/142][dgutov/diff-hl#142]]. Fixed by Eli.
+**** TODO [[bug:52983]] Implement visual-fill-column equivalent in display engine
+The status quo is disheartening:
+
+- hard-wrapping is illegible in narrow windows,
+- soft-wrapping is illegible in wide windows.
+
+This feature would allow unwrapped text to have a reasonable upper
+limit on line length, with smart wrapping prefixes using
+=adaptive-wrap=; even hard-wrapped text would not look /too/ ugly in
+narrow windows.
**** TODO Line height changes depending on visible characters
E.g. with wide Org tables and ~truncate-lines~ enabled, if the
~org-table~ face is set to a smaller height, then scrolling
