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Tassilo Horn-6 wrote
> Eli Zaretskii &lt;

> eliz@

> &gt; writes:
> 
>>> Also, why is the default to have wrapping in the middle of words?
>>
>> It isn't.  visual-line-mode wraps between words, except when a single
>> word is wider than a line.
> 
> But visual-line-mode is not the default.  (That's how I've interpreted
> the question.)
> 
> Bye,
> Tassilo

Indeed, that's what I meant: why isn't visual line mode the default? 

global-visual-line-mode is better, but not global: my draft buffers still
wrap in the middle of words. I have to turn on visual-line-mode manually.



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