From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: the menu Options / Truncate Long Lines in This Buffer not working correctly
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:58:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804101358.m3ADw3uK011838@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v0lk3m5ehi.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:57:29 -0400")
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
>
> > C-x 3
> >
> > now select the menu
> > "Options / Truncate Long Lines in This Buffer"
> > the toggle in the menu it is turning on and off, but the truncation mode
> > does not toggle the way the menu entry describes it.
>
> Hopefully this is better now.
It's better in the sense that the toggle is displayed correctly. But
unfortunately it is not very useful for a user that does not know the
subtleties of truncating lines.
> I'm not sure whether one should go further and define a new command
> linked to the toggle, that if needed makes
> truncate-partial-width-windows buffer-local and sets it to nil, before
> setting truncate-lines appropriately.
IMO, that would be TRTD, it would make the menu keep its promise to
toggle truncating long lines in the buffer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-10 13:58 UTC|newest]
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2008-04-07 5:11 ` the menu Options / Truncate Long Lines in This Buffer not working correctly Dan Nicolaescu
2008-04-10 7:57 ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-10 13:58 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2008-04-10 17:58 ` Glenn Morris
2008-04-11 4:26 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-05-29 23:15 ` bug#123: marked as done (the menu Options / Truncate Long Lines in This Buffer not working correctly) Emacs bug Tracking System
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