[Wikipedia-l] New Bug: Newline within a Link

Tue Mar 11 12:30:00 UTC 2003

> Any Emacs user out there?  How to prevent Emacs from breaking lines in
> "[[some words|"?

Emacs is not a good text editor, it is a good code editor. It doesn't even  
have built-in support for soft line wrapping, i.e. word wrapping at the  
window edge. You can wrap *characters* at the window edge using  
AutoFillMode, but to wrap words properly you need an ugly hack such as  
longlines.el (check CategoryFilling on emacswiki.org). Even the built in  
editor of my mail client is better than that.

Or you could use a decent *text* editor like nedit, scite or gvim.

I long for the day when Unix fetishists will realize that much of their  
software is broken for real world tasks.

Regards,

Erik