Emacs 23 word wrapping

[Uday S Reddy]

VM has long had the vm-fill-paragraphs-containing-long-lines variable
(and function) which allowed messages with long lines to be "filled".
This feature is not particularly useful any more, because people
rarely send messages with long lines these days. Rather, they send
messages with flowed text which has no line breaks inside paragraphs.
Rob F has provided an alternative paragraph filling function using
longlines.el in his vm-rfaddons library, which some people probably use.

Emacs 23 now has built-in word wrapping facility. It is called
visual-line-mode. You can turn on this feature for message display by
adding this line to your .vm file:

(add-hook 'vm-presentation-mode-hook 'turn-on-visual-line-mode)

Can Emacs 23 users try this and see if it works ok?

I would be interested to find out if there are any unpleasant
interactions with the handling of MIME attachments in VM.

Cheers,
Uday

[Göran Uddeborg]

Den 2009-12-17 skrev Uday S Reddy <uDOTsD...@cs.bham.ac.uk>:
> (add-hook 'vm-presentation-mode-hook 'turn-on-visual-line-mode)
>
> Can Emacs 23 users try this and see if it works ok?

I made a few simple tests, and it works just fine for me. This was
with emacs 23.1 on Fedora 12.