Re: How to wrap lines?

Enrico Schumann <[email protected]> writes:

> On Tue, 26 Mar 2024, Roland Winkler writes:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 25 2024, BP25 wrote:
>>> My "notes" field is long but only displayed as one line (both in bbdb
>>> and in the popup). I tried to set bbdb-wrap-column to non-nil (and
>>> actually I suspect that the value matters), but nothing changes! Can
>>> anyone help please? I looked at the code but can't really understand
>>> what this variable does...
>>
>> There is no variable bbdb-wrap-column in BBDB v3.  So I cannot comment.
>>
> [...]
>
> In bbdb.el from https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/bbdb.html
> (Version: 3.2.2b), I see
>
> ,----
> | (defcustom bbdb-wrap-column nil
> |   "Wrap column for multi-line display.  If nil do not wrap lines."
> |   :group 'bbdb-record-display
> |   :type '(choice (const :tag "No line wrapping" nil)
> |                  (number :tag "Wrap column")))
> `----

By the way, may I ask where you found these enclosing tags? I think
they're not the message mode default... but still quite nice.

> Out of curiosity, how could I see that this variable is not
> part of v3?

And also what is that variable suppose to do?