changeset 96778:5dafdebb219d

Add Visual Line mode.
author Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
date Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:41:29 +0000
parents 66c97af5f33c
children 2a63efc82880
files etc/NEWS
diffstat 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/NEWS	Thu Jul 17 23:37:50 2008 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Thu Jul 17 23:41:29 2008 +0000
@@ -470,6 +470,11 @@
 
 ** RST mode is a major mode for editing ReSTructured-Text files.
 
+** Visual Line mode provides support for editing by visual lines.
+It turns on word-wrapping in the current buffer, and rebinds C-a, C-e,
+and C-k to commands that operate by visual lines instead of logical
+lines.  This is a more reliable replacement for longlines-mode.
+
 ** A new `whitespace' package has been installed, and the pre-existing one
 renamed to `old-whitespace'.
 [FIXME someone explain why this is good, if it is...]