Texas Cyberthal <texas.cybert...@gmail.com> writes: >> visual-line-mode and toggle-truncate-lines are basic Emacs commands >> that all users should learn early. > > Visual lines, logical lines etc is a complicated mess that Spacemacs > avoids entirely. I recall fiddling with it and never being satisfied, > until adopting Spacemacs solved it. Now I know even less about it than > I did then, because there's no need to know. A brief investigation > shows Spacemacs sets (line-move-visual t) in prosey text modes, so > that C-n next-line operates on visual lines. However commands such as > C-e operate on logical lines: mwim-end-of-line-or-code. This is a sane > default that permits fluid navigation of paragraphs, which is all a > noob wants to do. > > Similarly, I almost never use truncate-lines, to the point that I had > to websearch to recall what it was called within the last week.
If I understand correctly, you're arguing that defaults should be changed because you don't understand how Emacs works, and since you use Spacemacs, you don't even care how it works. May I suggest that you propose your changes on the Spacemacs repo.
