org-mode compatibility

[mooseyboots]

i know it's probably really meant for prog-modes, but i just got started on a text project converted from pdf, and all page breaks are rendered as ^L.

when i insert an org heading, any horizontal lines following it become, i think, infinitely long, or very long, and if you try to move point past one, point goes way back up the buffer.

should this mode work in org (and so it is maybe something with my set up) or is it simply a no-go?

the problem is still there for me if i set a max width for page-break-lines, and also with any variable pitch modes disabled. (not sure what else it could be interacting with.)

[purcell]

when i insert an org heading, any horizontal lines following it become, i think, infinitely long, or very long, and if you try to move point past one, point goes way back up the buffer.

should this mode work in org (and so it is maybe something with my set up) or is it simply a no-go?

It should work. I'm not completely clear on the steps to reproduce. Could you perhaps paste a short example snippet of org content that is problematic for you?

[mooseyboots]

ah, i just realized, sorry, it only mucks up when visual-line-mode is enabled. maybe there's no way around that?

[basaran]

I use auto-fill-mode for my org files and set everything to a narrow width of 60 chars. You can perhaps try shadowing the page-break-lines--update-display-table function.

For proof of concept, replace make-list width glyph with
make-list fill-column glyph.

and set the fill column to whatever you like. Thank you purcell :)

[SterlingHooten]

I'm also having this issue, and it seems to be a combination of having both visual-line-mode and org-mode enabled together.

[purcell]

If I enable visual-line-mode in an org-mode buffer and play around with adding page breaks, I really don't see any misbehaviour. At least in Emacs 28.2. Could you give me your Emacs version and perhaps a few steps to reproduce, @SterlingHooten?