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A minor mode that builds on the concept of visual lines with additional functionality. Visual Line Mode wraps by word boundary resulting in “cleaner” word wrapping like what you’d see in a traditional word processor. The minor mode will also disable the fringe indicators.
Additionally, Visual Line Mode replaces a number of movement and editing
commands with visual equivalents. ‘C-p’ and ‘C-n’ will behave as they do in
default Emacs installations with the line-move-visual option enabled.
Furthermore, commands like moving to the beginning and end of a line (with ‘C-a’ and ‘C-e’) now work on visual lines instead of logical lines.
The kill command (bound to ‘C-k’) will also work on visual lines.
Toggle visual line-based editing (Visual Line mode) in the current buffer.
When Visual Line mode is enabled, ‘word-wrap’ is turned on in this buffer, and simple editing commands are redefined to act on visual lines, not logical lines.
Visual-Line mode is enabled in all buffers where ‘turn-on-visual-line-mode’ would do it.
When truncating is off, long lines are folded.