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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Freenet.DE>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: When in no-window use GNU Emacs clips contents in *Backtrace* buffer
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:06:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv643svjw9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6F6CD7C1-7BFA-44C8-A040-0B9365064631@Freenet.DE> (Peter Dyballa's message of "Sun\, 5 Aug 2007 21\:00\:09 +0200")

>>> are not expanded, they seem to be clipped in *Backtrace* buffer. So
>>> it's not easy to get the buffer position where the error happens ...
>> Try M-x toggle-truncate-lines RET
> Why is GNU Emacs hiding information? No init file is asking it to  truncate
> any lines ...

Some major modes and packages elect to enable truncate-lines by default in
their buffers because it's deemed more important to keep each logical line
on a single physical line (and let the user scroll-horizontally if she wants
to see more of each line).


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-06 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-05  3:06 [Peter_Dyballa@Freenet.DE: When in no-window use GNU Emacs clips contents in *Backtrace* buffer] Richard Stallman
2007-08-05  5:33 ` Fwd: When in no-window use GNU Emacs clips contents in *Backtrace* buffer Stefan Monnier
2007-08-05 19:00   ` Peter Dyballa
2007-08-06 14:06     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-08-06 14:19     ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-07  0:38     ` Miles Bader

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