From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oliver Scholz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Display of text in columns? Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:49:21 +0200 Organization: Arcor Message-ID: <44489cc5$0$11070$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> References: <877j5jamd2.fsf@optiplex.kalb.ath.cx> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145612522 29875 80.91.229.2 (21 Apr 2006 09:42:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:42:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 21 11:41:47 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWs8t-0006AA-Vk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:41:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWs8t-0002Dd-H9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 05:41:35 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!newsfeed.ision.net!newsfeed2.easynews.net!ision!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Apr 2006 10:50:13 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: cfa3e624.newsread4.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=XDf0H`Z4k3EVg>C^g8i1FI:ejgIfPPldDjW\KbG]kaMH]kI_X=5KeaFJD3P0^WQL1G3kWa6 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:34539 Archived-At: Jim Kalb writes: > Hello! > > I'd like to display several columns of text using emacs, so that (for > example) if the screen is 120 characters wide, the fill column is 60, > and I'm using a 2-column display, the text at any point in the file > would display starting in the first column, reach the bottom of the > screen, and then continue in the second column. Possible? If so, how? > > (The point is to be able to get more of something I'm writing on the > screen without using the very long lines I'd have to use if I simply > used a full screen display and increased the fill column to match.) [...] C-h f follow-mode Oliver -- 2 Floréal an 214 de la Révolution Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité!