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drain <aeus...@gmail.com> writes:

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

I agree with everything Eli & Peter said. ;-)

> 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.

Is it possibly that you still have visual-line-mode in some hooks?  What
you describe sounds like global-visual-line-mode first turns on VLM in
your draft buffer, and then your hook turns it off again (or the other
way round).

Bye,
Tassilo