From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: When in no-window use GNU Emacs clips contents in *Backtrace* buffer Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:38:25 +0900 Message-ID: <873aywrxfi.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <6F6CD7C1-7BFA-44C8-A040-0B9365064631@Freenet.DE> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186447170 1571 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2007 00:39:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 00:39:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , rms@gnu.org To: Peter Dyballa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 07 02:39:27 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IID6c-0005pT-Ig for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:39:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IID6Z-0004TT-2Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:39:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IID6V-0004TA-2h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:39:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IID6N-0004S2-Ey for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:39:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IID6N-0004Ry-CN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:39:11 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp02.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.72]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IID5q-0007mC-Cc; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:38:39 -0400 Original-Received: from 203-216-96-074.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.96.74] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp02.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1IID5c-0005bV-Ek; Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:38:24 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1E6C2300F; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 09:38:25 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <6F6CD7C1-7BFA-44C8-A040-0B9365064631@Freenet.DE> (Peter Dyballa's message of "Sun\, 5 Aug 2007 21\:00\:09 +0200") Original-Lines: 26 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:76114 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa writes: >> Try M-x toggle-truncate-lines RET > > Why is GNU Emacs hiding information? No init file is asking it to > truncate any lines ... Backtraces without truncate-lines are often quite unreadable and probably rather scary for an inexperienced user. Try this: M-x toggle-debug-on-quit RET M-x customize-face RET ^G M-x toggle-truncate-lines ...yikes! -miles -- The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic. [James Marston Fitch, New York Times, 1 May 1960]