On 06/02/2011 01:58 AM, Nick Dokos wrote: > Scott Randby <sran...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 06/01/2011 10:49 PM, Nick Dokos wrote: >>> Scott Randby <sran...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> This is a problem that has been bugging me for some time because I use >>>> visual-line-mode a lot when I'm working on my org-mode files. >>>> >>>> Say I have visual-line-mode turned on when I'm editing an org-mode file. >>>> If I do C-c C-l, put in the link address, hit <Enter>, put in a >>>> description, and hit <Enter>, then the long lines in the document are no >>>> longer wrapped even though "(Org Wrap)" still appears on the mode line. >>>> The only way I've been able to get wrapping back is to do M-x >>>> visual-line-mode twice (which is just leaving the mode and then bringing >>>> it back. This is very inconvenient, especially when I want to enter >>>> several links. Is this a bug or is there an easy way to remind Emacs >>>> that it is in visual-line-mode and that it should wrap long lines? >>>> >>>> I have org-mode 7.5 on Emacs 23.2.1 >>>> >>> >>> Cannot reproduce this either on emacs 23.1.1 or emacs 24.0.50 - the only >>> versions I have available here. org-mode is from earlier today. >>> >>> The word-wrap documentation suggests some interaction with >>> truncate-lines and truncate-partial-width-windows, so that might be a >>> path of investigation. But when I try setting truncate-lines to t >>> (which does truncate long lines even though "Wrap" is still on the mode >>> line) and then do (visual-line-mode 1), the variable is set back to nil >>> again. In any case, inserting links does not cause any other changes, no >>> matter what I set the variable to. >> >> In my .emacs, I have pop-up-windows set to nil. If I change that setting >> to t, then visual-line-mode keeps working when C-c C-l is used to insert >> a link. Changing pop-up-windows back to nil causes the bad behavior. >> >> One reason I want pop-up-windows to be set to nil is because I >> frequently use C-x C-b to look at the buffer list. If pop-up-windows is >> set to t, then C-x C-b opens the buffer list in a pop-up window while >> the active cursor is in the other window. This is ridiculous. >> >> I found this message about org-mode and pop-up windows in the mailing >> list archives: >> >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2009-04/msg00712.html >> >> While the issue described is not the same as mine, the complaint about >> org-mode not playing nice when pop-up-windows is set to nil is still valid. >> > > Yes, with pop-up-windows set to nil, I can reproduce it too. > The problem is that truncate-lines is set to t inside org-insert-link. > When I comment that out, I get the behavior you expect. The question is: > why is truncate-lines set to t? I don't know the answer to that, but it > seems to be unnecessary: I think it could be let-bound instead or explicitly > reset to its former value afterwards.
I will set pop-up-windows to t for now, but I hope the matter is investigated further to see if truncate-lines must be set to t in org-insert-link or if the code can be changed as you suggest. Thanks for your help. Scott > > The problems described by Samuel in the link you provided may be caused > by the same setting, but I haven't looked in detail. > > Nick >
