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29.1; Visual line mode behaves strangely on line with contiguous stretch of whitespace

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From: Rahguzar <rahguzar <at> zohomail.eu>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 29.1; Visual line mode behaves strangely on line with contiguous
 stretch of whitespace
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 22:10:43 +0200

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Dear Emacs maintainers,
 Starting with emacs -Q
 Paste the following lines two lines in the buffer,
sage: V = VectorSpace(RationalField(), 3)                                       # optional - sage.modules
sage: v = V.gen(1)                                                              # optional - sage.modules

Now shrink the window so that these lines cannot fit on one screen line.
When this happens Emacs wraps lines strangely. It doesn't break the
contiguous stretch of whitespace instead it breaks the word preceding
it. I have attached a screenshot of what I see with this email.


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Message #8 received at 66599 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Rahguzar <rahguzar <at> zohomail.eu>
Cc: 66599 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#66599: 29.1;
 Visual line mode behaves strangely on line with contiguous stretch of
 whitespace
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:37:44 +0300

tags 66599 notabug
thanks

> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 22:10:43 +0200
> From:  Rahguzar via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> Dear Emacs maintainers,
>  Starting with emacs -Q
>  Paste the following lines two lines in the buffer,
> sage: V = VectorSpace(RationalField(), 3)                                       # optional - sage.modules
> sage: v = V.gen(1)                                                              # optional - sage.modules
> 
> Now shrink the window so that these lines cannot fit on one screen line.
> When this happens Emacs wraps lines strangely. It doesn't break the
> contiguous stretch of whitespace instead it breaks the word preceding
> it. I have attached a screenshot of what I see with this email.

This is the expected behavior.  Visual line mode never breaks the line
in the middle of a stretch of whitespace characters, it always breaks
the line at a non-whitespace character _after_ a stretch of whitespace
characters.

This is not a bug.

Message #13 received at 66599 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Rahguzar <rahguzar <at> zohomail.eu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 66599 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#66599: 29.1; Visual line mode behaves strangely on line
 with contiguous stretch of whitespace
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 11:59:56 +0200

Hi Eli,

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> tags 66599 notabug
> thanks
>
> This is the expected behavior.  Visual line mode never breaks the line
> in the middle of a stretch of whitespace characters, it always breaks
> the line at a non-whitespace character _after_ a stretch of whitespace
> characters.
>
> This is not a bug.

Thanks for clarifying. Is there a way to get a behavior which
prioritizes not breaking on non-whitespace characters?

Rahguzar

Message #16 received at 66599 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Rahguzar <rahguzar <at> zohomail.eu>
Cc: 66599 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#66599: 29.1; Visual line mode behaves strangely on line
 with contiguous stretch of whitespace
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 14:08:35 +0300

> From: Rahguzar <rahguzar <at> zohomail.eu>
> Cc: 66599 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 11:59:56 +0200
> 
> > This is the expected behavior.  Visual line mode never breaks the line
> > in the middle of a stretch of whitespace characters, it always breaks
> > the line at a non-whitespace character _after_ a stretch of whitespace
> > characters.
> >
> > This is not a bug.
> 
> Thanks for clarifying. Is there a way to get a behavior which
> prioritizes not breaking on non-whitespace characters?

Not that I know of, no.  The word-wrap feature of visual line mode is
implemented in C, and the intent there is quite clear.

Message #21 received at 66599-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 66599-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Rahguzar <rahguzar <at> zohomail.eu>
Subject: Re: bug#66599: 29.1; Visual line mode behaves strangely on line with
 contiguous stretch of whitespace
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 06:57:51 -0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> tags 66599 notabug
> thanks
>
>> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 22:10:43 +0200
>> From:  Rahguzar via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
>>
>> Dear Emacs maintainers,
>>  Starting with emacs -Q
>>  Paste the following lines two lines in the buffer,
>> sage: V = VectorSpace(RationalField(), 3)                                       # optional - sage.modules
>> sage: v = V.gen(1)                                                              # optional - sage.modules
>>
>> Now shrink the window so that these lines cannot fit on one screen line.
>> When this happens Emacs wraps lines strangely. It doesn't break the
>> contiguous stretch of whitespace instead it breaks the word preceding
>> it. I have attached a screenshot of what I see with this email.
>
> This is the expected behavior.  Visual line mode never breaks the line
> in the middle of a stretch of whitespace characters, it always breaks
> the line at a non-whitespace character _after_ a stretch of whitespace
> characters.
>
> This is not a bug.

I'm therefore closing this bug report.

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