Re: Why is there no M-x word-wrap?

[Chong Yidong]

Deniz Dogan <address@hidden> writes:

> As I understand it, the right way to turn on so called word wrapping
> in Emacs is by doing (setq word-wrap t).  This isn't very
> user-friendly in my opinion.
>
> Why is there no command named `word-wrap' which toggles this mode?  It
> can really throw newbies off telling them to do M-: (setq word-wrap t)
> and if that's not enough, I find it kind of annoying myself.

Users probably want to use M-x visual-line-mode, which apart from
enabling word-wrap also redefines commands to act visually.  I added a
note to the docstring of word-wrap.