Received: by 10.66.88.198 with SMTP id bi6mr1950087pab.28.1350179805422; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 18:56:45 -0700 (PDT) Path: jt13ni9345pbb.1!nntp.google.com!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Subject: Re: visual line mode Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:56:40 -0600 Lines: 18 Approved: help-gnu-em...@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1350038115945-266940.post@n5.nabble.com> <7D26BCC2-3CEA-4109-878F-FEB13D2EED2B@Web.DE> <1350038885303-266943.post@n5.nabble.com> <395879E8-FD2F-4487-850D-0B2CECE37DF5@Web.DE> <83wqyv7rao.fsf@gnu.org> <7B153E83-F6E8-48ED-A6DF-905FB274C351@Web.DE> <83k3uv7ixg.fsf@gnu.org> <83bog67r96.fsf@gnu.org> <3F6B0303-632C-45F1-BC70-D230655BC92F@Web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1350179805 26003 208.118.235.17 (14 Oct 2012 01:56:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu To: help-gnu-em...@gnu.org Envelope-to: help-gnu-em...@gnu.org Mail-Followup-To: Bob Proulx , help-gnu-em...@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <3F6B0303-632C-45F1-BC70-D230655BC92F@Web.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-em...@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Peter Dyballa wrote: > While trying to find this or that recipe you requested, I found that effect: > ... I believe that effect is due to the basic incompatibility of tabs and visual-line-mode. Trying to position the cursor on any of the screen whitespace of a tab expansion means that the cursor will be displayed on the beginning of the tab whitespace. In the proposed example this causes the cursor to back up into the next line above skipping the actual visual line. And looks crazy. If the line has tabs expanded then the case is avoided. I think. At least for that case. BTW add me to the list of people who does not like and cannot stand visual-line-mode. I understand it. I don't like it. It makes a terrible default. Bob