I turned off auto-fill everywhere many years ago (it messed up my code blocks in org-mode too much. I usually write them in org-mode, not the programming mode). I use (global-visual-line-mode 1)
I cannot think of any issues that causes. I even have an unfill-paragraph to fix what my students do ;) I cannot say I seen many advantages with git with this, but we usually have one paragraph on a line. One day I just need to learn how to do word-based diffs/merge for text, instead of line-based. The only exception to auto-fill i can think of is in mu4e, where emails to get filled so they fit in about an 80 character field. Vikas Rawal writes: >> >> >> On 2015-08-03 at 23:11, Vikas Rawal <vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org> wrote: >>> But I guess one has to have some compromise somewhere :) >> >> Another compromise would be to stop using autofill mode and use >> visual-line-mode or something else. I recently made the switch after many >> years of auto-fill. It takes a bit of getting used to, but it works well. >> >> > > Yes, I have been thinking about this too. visual-line-mode with each sentence > in a separate line would have many other advantages too. It would perhaps be > better for git-like version control of documents written in orgmode. Isn’t it? > > Do others have an experience to share about this? > > Vikas -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
