Agreed for a completely unconfigured emacs process. But the article mentions enabling word-wrap. (That's one possible point of confusion for some - he means a v

Agreed for a completely unconfigured emacs process. But the article mentions enabling word-wrap. (That's one possible point of confusion for some - he means a variable/mode/feature with the name of "word-wrap", not just a generic word wrapping behavior.) It seems that that feature still does the sensible thing up through version 30. And from what I can tell from the mailing list, word-wrap-whitespace is an enhancement of the default word-wrap behavior that allows you to define your own whitespace chars to trigger a wrap. But from an outsider's perspective, I see how not having ANY whitespace-based word wrapping behavior enabled by default would be off-putting.